farmstead
- noun
- /ˈfɑrmˌstɛd/
- Lazy smoke rose from farmsteads along the river, where dutiful peat-eating peasants labored alongside their oxen.
- an isolated farmstead
- a small farmstead
- farmstead and house
Examples
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Over the winter, there wasn't much to do at the farmstead in Missouri.
Academic text (2011) -
The homesteads and farmsteads were not outright gifts but required repayment, so the colonists needed income.
Academic text (2006) -
Perhaps none more important than the selection of the location of my farmstead.
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Besides, there is more than enough land for you near our farmstead.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's a farmstead, just up the glen.
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Here, the storm sweeps over a farmstead on its way toward Boise City.
Blog text (4) -
Jake brought in a third-hand trailer, setting it up in a little valley near a long-abandoned farmstead.
Fiction book (2002) -
Small rural hamlets and dispersed farmsteads were the homes of most residents.
Academic text (2013) -
It is my firm and resolute intention to found and operate my own farmstead from which I will produce a superior artisanal goat cheese.
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The historic farmstead includes the main house, animal barns, and vast fields.
Synonyms
A place with fields and buildings for growing crops or keeping animals
A house with the land around it, usually in the countryside for farming
A large farm with its farmhouse and buildings in the countryside
A small farm in Scotland with a house and land
A farm and its buildings, often in Scotland or northern England
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Etymology
Farmstead is made of farm and stead, where stead means 'place' and appears in words like homestead. So a farmstead is the 'farm place', the farmhouse and the buildings and land around it.