steading

noun

Definition of steadingnext
as in homestead

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  1. homestead
  2. manor
  3. plantation
  4. smallholding
  5. farmhouse
  6. garden
  7. station
  8. hacienda
Noun
  • Gilbert was founded in 1891 when the first homestead was purchased in the area.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • As 15 States Hit With Winter Weather Warning Landslides, Flash Floods Leave 16 Dead, Six Missing The landslides affected an area of about 50 acres, including homesteads and agricultural land situated on a downhill slope.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of homestead
Noun
  • Many home logos utilize a name as a starting point, incorporating words such as cottage, bungalow, manor and hall before adding other area details.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The festivities started with a welcome party at an old manor called Casa Dos Penedos in Sintra.
    Florence O'Connor, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of manor
Noun
  • In truth, there is apparently no eyewitness account—and possibly as few as three questionable second-hand accounts—from before the Civil War that this Yule Log custom ever took hold on a single Southern plantation much less across the entire South.
    Robert E. May / Made by History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The Underground Railroad, both a history and an allegory about an enslaved woman who escapes from a Southern plantation, became an unblinkingly strong Prime Video series.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of plantation
Noun
  • 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
Definition of smallholding
Noun
  • Wheeler Farm: Meet Santa on the farmhouse porch and take a wagon ride through the light displays 5-7pm each Friday through Dec. 20.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Through reclaimed barn wood doors is the formal dining room, which sits ahead of the chef’s kitchen that fitted with a Viking range, a farmhouse sink, and breakfast bar seating.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of farmhouse
Noun
  • Fill with garden soil or mulch to a depth of about 6 to 8 inches.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Up on the roof, the secret garden has been carved out of one of the building’s historic turrets.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of garden
Noun
  • Statistics from the Arcadia Police Department and the Temple sheriff’s station show that overall crime is up in Arcadia since 2020 but down in Temple City.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In the audio obtained by the station, Burrow’s employee could be heard talking to a male security officer who was also inside the residence.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of station
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
Definition of hacienda
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