homesteadern.
/ˈhəʊmstɛdə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌstɛdər/ 1.
a. North American. A person who claims or occupies a homestead (homestead n. 2b). Now historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun]
peopler1566
planter1587
plantator1632
colonist1658
populator1664
storer1690
settler1696
white settler1754
plantationite1756
colonizer1766
colonizationist1823
colon1860
homesteader1870
plantationer1888
1870 North Amer. & U.S. Gaz. (Philadelphia) 13 June The bill would repeal the requirement in the charter of the Union Pacific for the sale of lands to homesteaders.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Jan. 7/1 He..has four grown sons, all homesteaders, who have four houses, one on each homestead, to comply with Government regulations.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Jan. 5/5 Each route north was lined this summer and fall with homesteaders, timber cruisers and miners.
1950 J. Jenks From Ground Up xix. 204 Those who have the qualities and the desire to become homesteaders.
2007 C. O'Flynn What was Lost (2009) 126 They would sit out in front of the shacks on salvaged chairs, looking like homesteaders rocking on their porches, surveying their land.
b. In extended use: a person who establishes a home or plot of land, esp. in a remote or challenging location.
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1921 Times 10 Aug. 10/2 May I direct attention to..the creation of a great body of industrial ‘homesteaders’ owning from a quarter of an acre up to an acre or more which they could cultivate in their spare time.
1972 N.Y. Mag. 12 June 64/1 We learn of..the endless intricacies of bureaucratic red tape that piles up despite the national campaign for jungle homesteaders.
1980 Cambr. Encycl. Archaeol. 151/1 Large areas of the continental interior..indicate steady forest clearance by homesteaders on lighter soils.
1990 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 July a8/5 Others will innovate with the most spartan of living quarters, for those homesteaders shopping for the lowest rents in space.
2005 T. Dorsey Torpedo Juice 48 A remote island not yet touched by public utilities, where modern homesteaders rough it out with cisterns, solar panels and generators.
2. U.S. A person who buys and refurbishes a house through a homesteading scheme (see homesteading n. 3).
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1972 Washington Post 17 Nov. b1/8 The commission would run training programs for prospective ‘homesteaders’ on basic maintenance.
1989 S. Lee Do Right Thing 16a (caption) Clifton is a white homesteader who got tired of paying exorbitant rents in Manhattan and found a good deal on a house in Bed-Stuy.
1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 355 He'd been walking—just walking—near Union Square, and a yuppie homesteader had chased him down the block.
2009 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 25 Mar. The housing that is becoming vacant during the current downturn..is relatively new and should be easier for homesteaders to repair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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