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homestead

[hohm-sted, -stid] / ˈhoʊm stɛd, -stɪd /








NOUN
plantation
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NOUN
soil
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A surviving spouse has the right to occupy the homestead for the rest of their life, even if it is separate property or was gifted to a third party.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Florida homeowners who have applied for the homestead exemption can estimate how much they would save under Amendment 3 on this website created by the state.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Alila Ventana Big Sur resort is 51 years old, while the Post Ranch Inn sits on the former homestead of the Post pioneer family who settled in the region in the 1860s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The amendment would expand the so-called homestead exemption—a reduction in the taxable value of a homeowner’s primary residence—which typically results in a lower property-tax payment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The homestead is still there, but I am the only one still alive that has memories of living there.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Neighbors judge one another for selling off family homesteads to developers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Fittingly, they have been called, in more recent years, seasteads, after the homesteads of the American West.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

And because of their ability to do that, it enabled humans to sort of stay in one place, not be so nomadic, to build farms and homesteads.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

"They continue to be displaced, we have new arrivals coming into IDP camps and they're telling their stories that they don't feel safe in their homesteads and in their farms."

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023

The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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