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homestead
English
Etymology
Equivalent to home +? stead. Cognate to German Heimstatt, Dutch heemstede and Swedish hemstad.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ho?m?st?d/
Noun
homestead (plural homesteads)
- A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
- 1700, John Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer” in Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 225,[1]
- 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:
- 1778, Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, 1789, Letter 43 to Daines Barrington, p. 242,[2]
- […] no sooner has a hen disburdened herself, than she rushes forth with a clamorous kind of joy, which the cock and the rest of his mistresses immediately adopt. The tumult is not confined to the family concerned, but catches from yard to yard, and spreads to every homestead within hearing, till at last the whole village is in an uproar.
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, Part 1, Chapter 1,[3]
- It was an important-looking village, with a fine old church and large churchyard in the heart of it, and two or three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks, standing close upon the road […]
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Part 1, Chapter 2,[4]
- 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 […]
- 1700, John Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer” in Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 225,[1]
- The place that is one's home.
- 1649, Thomas Bancroft, “To the never-dying Memory of the Noble Lord Hastings” in Richard Brome (ed.), Lachrymæ Musarum, London, p. 54,[5]
- Grief from yeer to yeer
- Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:
- 1649, Thomas Bancroft, “To the never-dying Memory of the Noble Lord Hastings” in Richard Brome (ed.), Lachrymæ Musarum, London, p. 54,[5]
- (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
- (obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
- c. 1620s, Joseph Hall, The Contemplations upon the History of the New Testament, London, 1661, pp. 30-31,[6]
- 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;
- 1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 2, Book 2, Section 4, pp. 38-39,[7]
- The PETSCHENEGRANS, as they are called in the russian and polish year-books, name themselves Kangar or Kangli, and were a powerful nomadic nation, which we can trace back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural.
- c. 1620s, Joseph Hall, The Contemplations upon the History of the New Testament, London, 1661, pp. 30-31,[6]
Translations
Verb
homestead (third-person singular simple present homesteads, present participle homesteading, simple past and past participle homesteaded)
- (transitive, intransitive) To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
- 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 2,[8]
- 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.
- 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 2,[8]
Derived terms
- homesteader
See also
- hstead
- homesteading
- smallholding
- croft
Anagrams
- deathsome
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abode
English
Alternative forms
- abood (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??b??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /??bo?d/, [???bo??d??]
- Rhymes: -??d
Etymology 1
From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English ?b?d, first person past singular indicative of ?b?dan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.
Noun
abode (plural abodes)
- (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay. [Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17th century.]
- (dated or law) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [Attested from (1350 to 1470) to the mid 18th century.]
- (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode
Translations
Verb
abode
- simple past tense and past participle of abide
Etymology 2
From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ?b?odan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + b?odan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- +? bode (“presage, portend, announce”).
Noun
abode (plural abodes)
- (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling. [Attested from the late 16th century to the late 17th century.]
Translations
Verb
abode (third-person singular simple present abodes, present participle aboding, simple past and past participle aboded)
- (transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage. [Attested from the late 16th century to the mid 17th century.]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous. [Attested from the mid 17th century to the late 17th century.]
Derived terms
See also
- dwelling
References
Anagrams
- EABOD, adobe, boaed
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