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Webster 1913 Edition
Homestead
Home′stead
,Noun.
[AS.
hāmstede
.] 1.
The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
Dryden.
2.
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
We can trace them back to a
homestead
on the Rivers Volga and Ural. W. Tooke.
3.
(Law)
The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
Homestead law
. (a)
A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also
homestead exemption law
. (b)
Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers.
[U.S.]
Definition 2024
homestead
homestead
English
Noun
homestead (plural homesteads)
- A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- The place that is one's home.
- (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
- The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
- W. Tooke
- We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.
- W. Tooke
Translations
place that is one's home
Verb
homestead (third-person singular simple present homesteads, present participle homesteading, simple past and past participle homesteaded)