homesteadnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhəʊm.sted/us/ˈhoʊm.sted/mainly US a house and the surrounding area of land, usually used as a farm
US in the past, land given by the government for farming
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Farms & ranches
- collective farm
- croft
- dairy farm
- estate
- farm
- farmhouse
- farmland
- farmstead
- market garden
- nursery
- plantation
- ranch
- sheep station
- smallholding
- spread
- station
- tea garden
- truck farm
- vertical farm
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homesteadverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈhəʊm.sted/us/ˈhoʊm.sted/USin the past, to build a house and grow crops on land given by the government
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Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- cultivate
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- harvest
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- thrash
- till
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