Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A farm, including its land and buildings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The collection of buildings belonging to a farm; the homestead on a farm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The main
building of afarm - noun A farm, including its buildings
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm
- noun a farm together with its buildings
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Examples
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There is even a growing movement among traditional American dairies to make their own cheeses right on the farm (called farmstead cheeses).
Nicolette Hahn Niman: Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide 2009
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Thorstein had a home in the Western Settlement at a certain farmstead, which is called Lysufirth.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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The house they reside in -- it cannot be called a farmstead -- is a large villa-like mansion of recent erection, and fitted with every modern convenience.
Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867
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In Missouri there are 10 of these cheese operations, known as farmstead producers, according to the state milk board.
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Place where the reeds grow (LXX. and Copt. read "farmstead"), the name of a place in Egypt where the children of Israel encamped (Ex. 14: 2, 9), how long is uncertain.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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'farmstead', with a large roundhouse S9 set in an enclosure of about third of a hectare with several other buildings.
British Blogs 2009
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Adam Friedberg for The Wall Street Journal The renovation, by Howell Custom Building, which also worked on the farmstead restoration, opened up the kitchen to create a family room.
Farm Restoration 2011
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Of the 2.1 million people who counted as farmers, about 1.3 million of them live in a farmstead in rural America.
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Malick's seminal second film – a dreamy mix of earthiness and spiritualism, set on a Texan farmstead.
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For years, she dreamed about fixing up and living in the farmstead down the road.
Bringing a Farm Back to Life Nancy Keates 2011
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