homesteads

noun

plural of homestead
as in farmhouses

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Recent Examples of homesteads Florida’s property tax system already shifts billions in property taxes from homesteads to non-homestead property. — Jeff Kottkamp, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homesteads
  1. plantations
  2. manors
  3. haciendas
  4. farmlands
  5. farms
Noun
  • Many let their plantations fall victim to rot; others abandoned cocoa farming altogether.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Even though public schooling became compulsory in 1896, the language barrier and the remote location of many plantations led to gaps in access to these laborers’ formal education.
    — H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of plantations
Noun
  • For a honeymoon, Ireland offers everything from castle estates and countryside manors to dramatic coastlines and quiet villages.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
Definition of manors
Noun
  • The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
    — Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 6 Dec. 2025
Definition of haciendas
Noun
  • At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
Definition of farmlands
Noun
  • Meaning that the blue weber agave used in its production was cultivated from farms that actively restore soil health and improve local ecosystems rather than just sustaining them.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Taylor Farms works with hundreds of family farms for its produce and handles processing, packaging and distribution itself.
    — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of farms

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“Homesteads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homesteads. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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