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seastead

seastead

2 9.8
A floating platform on the sea where people live, work, and try new ways of living
  • noun
  • /ˈsiːstɛd/
  • Jargon
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  • The seastead provides an innovative living space for those seeking a new lifestyle on the water.
  • build the seastead
  • leaving the seastead

Examples

  • I think I'll send a donation to the Seastead project or the Free State Project.

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  • I do not intend my seastead to have a permanent population, but then again, neither does Vatican City.

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  • There are many ways that such seasteads can be commercially successful.

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  • I think seasteads will become popular with the life-extension crowd.

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  • Suppose seasteads use their territorial waters to establish regulated fishing rights?

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  • Seasteads make an ideal environment that is free from such inhibitory factors.

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  • Many families are choosing to build their homes on a seastead to enjoy a unique environment.

  • The designers proposed a self-sustaining seastead that could accommodate various types of communities.

How Big

village
∞ 1.0
seastead
  • Jargon
2 9.8
floating bridge
  • Specialized
1 4.2
floating dock
  • Specialized
1 5.3
buoy
  • Specialized
47 6.0

Surface Forms

seastead singular
seasteads plural

Morphology

seastead = sea + stead (transparent) = sea + stead

The compound clearly denotes a 'place' ('stead') associated with the 'sea', i.e., a place on the sea, so the meaning is directly recoverable from the parts.

Etymology

The word seastead comes from sea and stead, where stead means 'place' or 'home', like in homestead. So a seastead is a 'place at sea', a floating home or community for living, working, or trying new ways of life.