smallholding

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of smallholding According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread. Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024 Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool. Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018 Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters. Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholding
Noun
  • Warren embraced the symbolism, physically leaning on a podium made of wood salvaged from the Perkins homestead.
    Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made by History, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Things to do: Tour a reconstructed 17-18th century Cherokee homestead, drive along a Quilt Trail, camp, hike, or fish at the Jackrabbit Mountain Recreation Area, catch a concert at the Peacock Performing Arts Center.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Photo: The Interior Archive The Sussex, England, farmhouse of Kim Jones, Fendi’s artistic director of women’s collections, is an escape for sure.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The lower valleys are lush and pastoral, home to stone farmhouses, patchy forests, and sheep, while the also sheepy fells, the highest of which rise some 3,000 feet above the valley, are smooth topped, steep sided, and famously bare of trees.
    Steven Potter, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This week, racist text messages are being sent to Black Americans, telling them they are selected to be enslaved and assigned to pick cotton on a plantation.
    Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But if old-growth trees are replaced with new tree plantations, the new trees may never reach the same size as the original trees, some environmental groups argue.
    Kurt Kleiner, JSTOR Daily, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Many best-selling items are on sale at Walmart’s Black Friday, including tech, fashion, home, toys, patio and garden, seasonal decor, and more.
    Rachel Trujillo, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In Northern Ireland, visitors to Hillsborough Castle and Gardens — the royal residence there — can experience an after-dark winter train inspired by the 12 Days of Christmas in the castle’s 100-acre gardens.
    Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The creative had a distinct vision for their historic Georgian manor home.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In a teaser trailer released by CTV on Thursday, The Traitors Canada revealed its cast of upcoming manor mates, including notable LGBTQ+ celebrities like Canada’s Drag Race star Melinda Verga, who placed fifth on the show’s much-beloved fourth season.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The paper distributed road maps to orchard locations.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Indiana orchard carves stunning Caitlin Clark tribute into corn maze County Line Orchard in Hobart, Indiana, has seen record crowds come to witness its Caitlin Clark corn maze in honor of the WNBA Fever and former Iowa star this Halloween season.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The film, macabre and atmospheric from start to finish, relocates the classic folklore to an isolated hacienda in a Mexican village where a young woman has returned to bury her aunt.
    DeAnna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
  • She was born on May 29, 1917 and grew up in a hacienda in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
    Natalia Torija Nieto, ELLE Decor, 28 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • Dogs provide security to farms and animals, help herd livestock, and even detect pests.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
  • North Carolina estimates the storm caused at least $48.8 billion in direct or indirect damages with houses, drinking water systems, farms and forests destroyed.
    ISABELLA O’MALLEY AND MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024

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“Smallholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholding. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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