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homestead
noun(home-stead)
the home and adjoining land occupied by a family
homestead
noun(home-stead)
an ancestral home
homestead
noun(home-stead)
house
homestead
verb(home-stead)
to acquire or occupy as a homestead
homestead
verb(home-stead)
to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law
homestead
geographical name(home-stead)
city in southeastern Florida southwest of Miami population 60,512
homestead
noun(home-stead)
a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts
homestead
noun(home-stead)
any of several legislative acts authorizing the sale of public lands in homesteads
homestead
geographical name(home-stead)
site in southeastern Nebraska of the first homestead entered under the General Homestead Act of 1862

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