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# homestead

noun (homesteads)

«homestead» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A homestead is a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family lives. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#m1)
2. (old use) In America, a homestead was a piece of land given to a settler to farm and live on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories a family's home and farm, often in the country, with a fence round it; in lessons it names a farm house with its land

### Examples

- The family built a large homestead by the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#x1)
- They walked back to the homestead before dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#x2)
- A tall fence ran round the homestead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#x3)
- Our homestead had a barn, a well and three fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#x4)
- The farmer's wife fed the hens around the homestead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «homestead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«homestead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/homestead.html) on Mova free.