homestead

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
    — 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:
  2. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.; A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States. Canada,US
    — He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery […]
  3. The place that is one's home.
    — Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:
  4. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family. South-Africa
  5. The home or seat of a family; place of origin. obsolete
    — Where then wast thou tempted, O Blessed Jesu? or whither wentest thou to meet with our great Adversary? I do not see thee led into the marketplace, or any other part of the City, or thy home-stead of Nazareth, but into the vast Wilderness, the habitation of beasts;
动词 v.
  1. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead. intransitive,transitive
    — When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded.
  2. To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it. transitive

词形变化

homesteads plural homesteads present,singular,third-person homesteading participle,present homesteaded participle,past homesteaded past

词汇关系

衍生词
Homestead Valley seastead shopstead homesteader
相关词
croft homesteading hstead smallholding

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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