Definitions For Homestead

noun

• Dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
• Land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
• The home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
• A house and the farmland it is on
• A piece of government land that a person could acquire by living on it and farming it when the western part of the U.S. was being settled

verb

• Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead