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homesteader

[hohm-sted-er] / ˈhoʊmˌstɛd ər /
NOUN
colonist
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NOUN
squatter
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“I also had this growing desire to be a homesteader for real. And then after a while I was just like, ‘I grew a tomato!

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

It all goes back to her father, Isaac Newton, the homesteader, and his perennial financial problems.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

These dishes are a far cry from what the homesteader, who is half Sicangu Lakota, ate growing up in Minneapolis.

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2023

Hannigan also learned that in 1881, at 58, she married Harvey Clark, a Black homesteader and widower from South Carolina.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2021

I narrated my college life in exacting detail to both my parents like a homesteader dutifully providing dispatches from the frontier.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama