Definitions
Home with its surrounding land, often a farm dwelling.
Word origin
From Middle English hamstede, hemstede (attested in placenames), from Old English hāmstede (“homestead”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimastadi (“homestead”). By surface analysis, home + stead. Cognate with Old Frisian hāmstede, hēmstede (“homestead”), Dutch heemstede (“homestead”), German Heimstatt, Heimstätte (“homestead”), Swedish hemstad (“homestead”), Old Icelandic heimstǫð (“homestead”). Doublet of Hampstead and Hempstead.
Used in a sentence
“A Yard she had with Pales enclos’d about, / Some high, some low, and a dry Ditch without. / Within this Homestead, liv’d without a Peer, / For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer:”
“The preacher lived on his homestead two miles away and it seemed to Laura the longest drive she had ever taken, and yet it was over all too soon.”
“Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Rural residence”9 letters
02“Farm dwelling”9 letters
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