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# homestead

«homestead» in Mova's school dictionary: **a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (homesteads)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A homestead is a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family lives. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «homestead» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homestead/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.