Word: homestead
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Synonyms: homestead
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: homestead
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german
Translations:
gehöft, heimstätte
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french
Translations:
économie, ménage, propriété, ferme
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russian
Translations:
усадьба, участок, ферма
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czech
Translations:
statek, farma, dům, dvůr, usedlost, hospodářství
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polish
Translations:
farma, domostwo, gospodarstwo
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ukrainian
Translations:
ферма, садиба
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estonian
Translations:
asustama, talukoht, eluase
The meaning and "use of": homestead
noun
- a house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings. - All spent idyllic summers visiting their widowed grandmother, Emma Darwin, at Down House, the old homestead in the Kent countryside.
- a person's or family's residence, which comprises the land, house, and outbuildings, and in most states is exempt from forced sale for collection of debt. - Station homesteads were thus widely scattered and invariably placed alongside the most abundant and reliable water sources.
- (as provided by the federal Homestead Act of 1862) an area of public land in the West (usually 160 acres) granted to any US citizen willing to settle on and farm the land for at least five years. - Under the 1868 treaty Indians were permitted to claim 160-acre homesteads on public lands.
- (in southern Africa) a hut or cluster of huts occupied by one family or clan, standing alone or as part of a traditional African village. - And, likewise, tourists flying into Ondangwa and Oshakati are fascinated by the intricate patterned landscape of the traditional Owambo homesteads , for example.
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