Homestead | Mean of homestead in English Dictionary
/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/
- Noun
- a house and the farmland it is on
- They decided to farm the old homestead.
- a piece of government land that a person could acquire by living on it and farming it when the western part of the U.S. was being settled
- Verb
- to settle on government land and farm it
- They homesteaded in Alaska.
- They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.