Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: homestead
IPA transcription: [h'oʊmst,ɛd]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: homestead
    Meaning: settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
Usage examples
  • He asked them to observe Webb's pretty homestead, no longer marred by the unsightly sign upon the barn.
  • The great dining-room at Hilcrest, the old Spencer homestead, was perhaps the pleasantest room in the house.
  • Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service.
  • He was compelled almost hourly to wage battles for his location, for there was something fine about the old stag sumac that attracted homestead seekers.
  • Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.
  • On the further side of the stream stood a small homestead, having a garden and pig-sties attached; in front of it, beside the brook, three young women were kneeling, with buckets and platters beside them containing heaps of pigs' chitterlings, which they were washing in the running water.