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Homestead home·stead

Spelling: [hohm-sted, -stid]

IPA: /ˈhoʊm stɛd, -stɪd/

Homestead is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 501 anagrams from letters in Homestead (adeehmost).

Definitions for Homestead

noun

1. a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
2. any dwelling with its land and buildings where a family makes its home.
3. a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act.
4. a house in an urban area acquired under a homesteading program.
5. a town in S Florida.

verb (used with object)

1. to acquire or settle on (land) as a homestead:

verb (used without object)

1. to acquire or settle on a homestead:

Origin of Homestead

before 1000; Old English hāmstede (not found in ME). See home, stead

Examples for Homestead

The New York resident grew up just south of Miami, in homestead, Florida.

He also enacted the homestead Act, which supplied aspiring settlers with a gift: 160 acres of federal land.

The law provides that a homestead to the value of $1,000 shall inure to the widow.

A homestead to the value of $1,000 is exempted to "the head of the family."

A homestead not exceeding $1,000 in value may be reserved for the widow.

In The Americans, the historian Daniel Boorstin traced the madness of the farmers to the homestead Act of 1862.

The apartment had hardly the appearance of a room in a Cumbrian homestead.

At this moment of doubt, Sim walked into the courtyard of the homestead.

Yet American governments of both parties have long viewed his current homestead as illegitimate.

It was a farm, let there be no mistake, and not merely a homestead.