homestead

«homestead» in Mova's school dictionary: a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (homesteads)

meaning for a pupil

1) A homestead is a house with its farm buildings and land, where a family lives. tree →

2) (old use) In America, a homestead was a piece of land given to a settler to farm and live on. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories a family's home and farm, often in the country, with a fence round it; in lessons it names a farm house with its land

examples

• The family built a large homestead by the river. tree →
• They walked back to the homestead before dark. tree →
• A tall fence ran round the homestead. tree →
• Our homestead had a barn, a well and three fields. tree →
• The farmer's wife fed the hens around the homestead. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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