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homesteaders

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for homesteaders.

Editorial note

You mean all those homesteaders that killed native people and stole their land with the backing the government?

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Quick take

A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of homesteaders gathered in one view.

noun

A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for homesteaders.

noun

A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.

Example sentences

1

You mean all those homesteaders that killed native people and stole their land with the backing the government?

2

They're trying to enable the homesteaders that come after them, and from whom settlements grow and expand.

3

My father is the son of homesteaders and while he didn’t live in the original homesteader shack.

4

My grandparents were homesteaders who at some point in their life lived in houses with dirt floors.

5

It's hitting a lot of homesteaders in the Coachella Valley (CA) and in Arizona right now.

6

Er, the American push westwards was quite nightmarish and genocidal, and US homesteaders appropriated land much like Hitler planned to do.

7

It wasn't 500 years ago, but homesteaders similarly had to make from scratch most of what they wore, and used, and ate.

8

My father’s family however, his parents (my grand parents) were the children of immigrant homesteaders though who walked across the Canadian border.

9

We could all go back to being homesteaders and walking to market to trade.

10

Natural owners (homesteaders) have been displaced many times by state violence and the threat of state violence keeps people from homesteading available space.

11

Honduras does not have untouched expanses of territory awaiting homesteaders to lay claim.

12

Because you are competing not with homesteaders but rich professionals or pensioned.gov retirees who want some escape from the pollution/crime/cramp of the city.

Quote examples

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Most "homesteaders" actually still buy most of their calories at the store.

2

Early "homesteaders" of GeoCities would select their URL based on a loose ontology of (neighbor)"hoods" and (sub)"burbs" (a fashion oriented page might be hosted at /FashionAvenue/Catwalk/1493).

3

> I guess there is a counter argument that people who choose to homeschool can "afford" to do so I would say that the vast majority the quote-unquote "normal" homeschool parents I know are broke hippies/homesteaders/vanlife/wooden-sailboat types.

Proper noun examples

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Homesteaders could improve the land and claim ownership.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use homesteaders in a sentence?

You mean all those homesteaders that killed native people and stole their land with the backing the government?

What does homesteaders mean?

A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.

What part of speech is homesteaders?

homesteaders is commonly used as noun.