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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

Bradford’s piece, a large-scale painting, takes on the history of Blackdom, a Black homesteader colony in Chaves County, N.M., in the early 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

I placed Sandra as the homesteader in the classic western.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2022

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