noun
- a house with its land and buildings, especially a farm
- land acquired from the U.S. government by filing a record and living on and cultivating it
Usage: historical
verb
- to acquire or settle on land as a homestead
Usage: historical
Examples
- The family lived on a small homestead in rural Montana.
- Their homestead included a farmhouse, barn, and forty acres of cropland.
- Many pioneers homesteaded in the Great Plains during the 1800s.
- The old homestead had been in their family for generations.
- Under the Homestead Act, settlers could claim 160 acres of public land.
- They decided to homestead in Nebraska after the Civil War.
- The abandoned homestead still had fruit trees growing in the yard.