HOMESTEAD

Homestead

A homestead consists of a dwelling, often a farm house together with other buildings and associated land. Historically it referred to land claimed by settler or squatter under the Homestead Act or Dominion Lands Act . A homestead may be a ranch, station or a large agricultural operation of some other designation. In Old English the term was used to mean a human settlement, and in Southern Africa the term is used for a cluster of several houses normally occupied by a single extended family.

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homestead

Noun

  1. a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
  2. the place that is one's home
  3. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
  4. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

Verb

  1. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.


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