homestead

1 the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family

2 land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

3 dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land v : settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead

English

Noun

1. a house and the curtilage

Verb

1. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

See also

• hstead

Homestead may refer to:

Property-related

• Homestead (buildings), a smallholding farm with a farmer's residence
• Homestead (area), an area measure of 160 acres (650,000 m²) also called a quarter-section
• Homestead (small African settlement), a cluster of several single-family houses in southern Africa
• Homestead Act, an 1862 United States Federal law that gave away millions of acres to farmers
• Homestead exemption, a legal regime to protect the value of a residence from expenses arising from the death of a spouse
• Homestead principle, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of previously unowned property through use
• Homesteading, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency

United States geographical locations

Cities, towns, townships, villages

• Homestead, Florida
• Homestead, Iowa
• Homestead, Missouri
• Homestead, Oklahoma
• Homestead, Pennsylvania
• Homestead, Wisconsin
• Homestead Township, Michigan
• Homestead Township, Minnesota

Other

• Homestead Air Reserve Base, an U.S. Air Force base near Miami, Florida
• Homestead-Miami Speedway, an auto racing track in Homestead, Florida
• The Homestead (Geneseo), a historic house in Geneseo, New York
• The Homestead, Virginia, a luxury resort in Hot Springs, Virginia
• The Homestead at Denison University, a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio
• Homestead High School, the name of several high schools in the United States

General

• "Homestead" (Voyager episode), a 2001 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• Homestead (novel), a 1998 novel by American writer Rosina Lippi
• Homestead Records, a record label founded in 1983 and based in New York City
• Homestead Records (1920s), an American record company that flourished in the 1920s
• Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania
• Homestead Technologies, a web-hosting service based in Menlo Park, California

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