homestead

Everyday

1. A homestead is a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family lives. tree →
2. (old use) In America, a homestead was a piece of land given to a settler to farm and live on. tree →

In the lessons

in stories a family's home and farm, often in the country, with a fence round it; in lessons it names a farm house with its land

Examples

• The family built a large homestead by the river. tree →
• They walked back to the homestead before dark. tree →
• A tall fence ran round the homestead. tree →
• Our homestead had a barn, a well and three fields. tree →
• The farmer's wife fed the hens around the homestead. tree →

Note

nothing for maths