Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A farm, including its land and buildings.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The collection of buildings belonging to a farm; the homestead on a farm.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm
- n. a farm together with its buildings
Examples
“There is even a growing movement among traditional American dairies to make their own cheeses right on the farm (called farmstead cheeses).”
Nicolette Hahn Niman: Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide
“Thorstein had a home in the Western Settlement at a certain farmstead, which is called Lysufirth.”
“The house they reside in -- it cannot be called a farmstead -- is a large villa-like mansion of recent erection, and fitted with every modern convenience.”
“In Missouri there are 10 of these cheese operations, known as farmstead producers, according to the state milk board.”
“Place where the reeds grow (LXX. and Copt. read "farmstead"), the name of a place in Egypt where the children of Israel encamped (Ex. 14: 2, 9), how long is uncertain.”
“farmstead', with a large roundhouse S9 set in an enclosure of about third of a hectare with several other buildings.”
“For years, she dreamed about fixing up and living in the farmstead down the road.”
“Adam Friedberg for The Wall Street Journal The renovation, by Howell Custom Building, which also worked on the farmstead restoration, opened up the kitchen to create a family room.”
“Of the 2.1 million people who counted as farmers, about 1.3 million of them live in a farmstead in rural America.”
The Washington Post: Vilsack: ‘I took it as a slam on rural America’
“Malick's seminal second film – a dreamy mix of earthiness and spiritualism, set on a Texan farmstead.”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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