| 词汇 | homestead |
| 释义 | homestead noun[ C ] uk /ˈhəʊm.sted/ us /ˈhoʊm.sted/ mainly US a house and the surrounding area of land, usually used as a farm农场，农庄（包括房屋及其周围田地） US in the past, land given by the government for farming（旧时政府资助的）农田 Farms & ranches country estate croft dairy farm dairyman farm farmhouse farmland farmstead fish farm grange kibbutz market garden non-cultivated non-farm ranch smallholding spread superfarm tea garden truck farm homestead verb[ I or T ] USuk /ˈhəʊm.sted/ us /ˈhoʊm.sted/ in the past, to build a house and grow crops on land given by the government（旧时）经营农庄 Farming - general words agricultural extension agroecology agroforestry biodynamic cultivate emergence harvester hungry gap hydroponic hydroponically inorganically landrace reap the Agrarian Revolution thrash tillage U-pick unharvested unsown untillable homestead | American Dictionaryhomestead noun[ C ] us/ˈhoʊm·sted/ a house and the surrounding area of land, esp. land obtained from the government which is lived on and used for farming homestead | Business Englishhomestead noun[ C ] USuk /ˈhəʊmsted/us LAW, PROPERTY property that is your permanent home and not a second home or property that you rent to someone else: In some states your homestead can't be touched by creditors - no matter when it was purchased. PROPERTY a house and the surrounding area of land, usually used as a farm: Developers are on the verge of taking over the family homestead. Examples of homesteadhomestead Householders in more egalitarian ' stateless ' societies had to build up their reputations by hand, establishing prosperous homesteads and defending their reputations against other people's slurs. Each is surrounded by lesser administrative sites and rural homesteads. Women and girls came to their new homesteads with their own jewellery and were subsequendy buried with them. A lot of the migrants were healthy, young people who moved to new regions, set up homesteads, and started families. The majority of inhabitants in the urban areas live in clustered homesteads due to scarcity of land for settlement. The morally instructive history of homesteading taught elders the dangers of familial discord. The loss of people decreased the labour available to herd and guard cattle, work the land and protect homesteads and grain stores. Elders determined the opening date for each of these reserves and designated specific areas for homesteads. The rudiments of a selfimposed technical land-use plan were evident in the siting and layout of the new homesteads and arable plots. Thus, the unit was set to encompass no more than 200 homesteads or nomad tents in rural communities, and from 1,000 to 2,000 in volost communities. Homegardens may be defined as integrated, multi-structured, tree, crop and livestock systems that have been developed around tropical homesteads, often on quite small pieces of land. Both men and women garnered more or less prestige according to their homestead's wealth in stock, number of children and overall reputation for successful management of their domestic affairs. The development of a centralized state, which usurped the powers of lineages and homesteads, had a profound effect upon the way some women related to the rest of society. The technology under discussion, that is the cultivation of forages on small upland or lowland plots near homesteads, seeks to generate feeds to supplement the diets of grazing cattle. Intensive broiler management systems tend to deprive birds of free access to fresh pastures and succulent leguminous plants that are readily available to scavenging chicken around homesteads and villages. See all examples of homestead These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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