Farmstead vs. Homestead — What's the Difference?

A farm, including its land and buildings.

A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land.

The main building of a farm.

(Law) Property qualifying as a person's home under certain laws, such as laws providing tax abatements and exemptions, survivorship rights for spouse and children, and immunity from claims of creditors.

A farm, including its buildings.

Land claimed by a settler or squatter, especially under the Homestead Act.

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

The place where one's home is.

The buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm

To settle and farm land, especially under the Homestead Act.

A farm together with its buildings

To claim and settle (land) as a homestead.

A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.

The place that is one's home.

(South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.

(obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.

The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.

The home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family

Land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

Dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land

Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead