different between homestead vs court

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)

1. 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 […]

2. 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:

3. (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
4. (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.

Translations

Verb

homestead (third-person singular simple present homesteads, present participle homesteading, simple past and past participle homesteaded)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• homesteader

See also

• hstead
• homesteading
• smallholding
• croft

Anagrams

• deathsome

English

Etymology

From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Latin c?rtem (accusative of c?rs), ultimately from cohors. Doublet of cohort.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• Homophone: caught (non-rhotic with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art

     And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
   1. (US, Australia) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
2. (social) Royal society.
   1. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
   2. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
      • 1819-1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan

        Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.

   3. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
3. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
   • 1667, John Evelyn, Diary entry 18 April, 1667

     I went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.

4. (law) The administration of law.
   1. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

   2. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
   3. (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
   4. The session of a judicial assembly.

   5. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
5. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games
   1. one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
      • 2010, Cara Marcus, Faulkner Hospital

        The photograph at left captures a great serve by Dr. Sadowsky, who will never forget one of Bobby Riggs's serves, which had such a great spin that it landed in his court and bounced back to the other side of the net before he had a chance to return it.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Russian: ???? (kort) (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Verb

court (third-person singular simple present courts, present participle courting, simple past and past participle courted)

1. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
2. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
3. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
4. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.

5. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
6. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
7. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

   Synonyms: romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo

8. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.

9. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

   Synonyms: charm, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure

Translations

Further reading

• court on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Crout, Curto, Turco, Turco-, crout

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/
• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, cours, courts
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Adjective

court (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes)

1. short

Derived terms

Related terms

• accourcir
• écourter

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

court

1. third-person singular present indicative of courir

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English court.

Noun

court m (plural courts)

1. (tennis) court

Derived terms

• fond de court

Further reading

• “court” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• courte

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cort, curt.

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. court (place, building)

Descendants

• English: court

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cort, curt, etc.

Noun

court f (plural cours)

1. court (of law)
2. court (of a palace, etc.)

Descendants

• French: cour

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (court, supplement)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus (“shortened, short”).

Adjective

court m

1. (Jersey) short

Derived terms

• courtément (adverb)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus.

Adjective

court m (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes, feminine plural (before noun) courtès)

1. short