to homestead
5
8.1
- verb
- /ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/
- Archaic
:
asentarse en (EE. UU.)
- He's an old man who homesteaded here.
So that makes it so I'm not going to be able to afford housing until I can afford to like homestead in the middle of nowhere or something.
- So that makes it so I'm not going to be able to afford housing until I can afford to like homestead in the middle of nowhere or something.
Examples
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There they would join one of the many wagon trains heading to California, where they would homestead and make their fortune.
Fiction book (2001) -
We found five families who will homestead at Fort Ruby and help us resettle it.
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But I also wanted to homestead and live a simple country life.
Fiction book (1992) -
About anyone can homestead on whatever level is comfortable to them, according to Anna.
Blog text (32) -
I want a young farmer, homesteading a quarter section.
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My mother told stories of homesteading on the Canadian Prairies.
Blog text (34) -
"Jesse's kin homesteaded this place clear back in the Land Rush, lived here ever since."
Fiction book (1992) -
Carl and his wife Rebecca had homesteaded in this valley back in '65, after they noticed all the tourists stopping to photograph the glacier.
Fiction book (1999) -
So when I became 21, I followed in my father's footsteps and went up to northwestern North Dakota, right up on the Canadian border and homesteaded near a little railroad town called Crosby.
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After receiving official approval, she decided to homestead a piece of land in the mountains.
Synonyms
463
2.5
To live in a place, often for a long time
91
3.0
To live in a particular place
79
3.0
To live in a place or have a home there
2
7.9
To make a place your official home for legal and tax purposes
To start living in a certain place as your home, sometimes for legal reasons
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A law that protects a person's home from people or companies who are owed money
How Settled
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb homestead comes from the idea of home + stead ('home place'), so to 'homestead' is to make a home place on new land; settlers would homestead by living on and farming the land until it became theirs.