homestead

noun/ˈhoʊmstɛd/

Frequency rank: #7,749 most common English word

Meaning

a house, especially a farmhouse, together with the land and buildings around it where a family lives and works.

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Example sentence

My grandparents built their homestead on a wide stretch of land in rural Montana.

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