[
US
/ˈfɑɹmˌstɛd/
]
[ UK /fˈɑːmstɛd/ ]
[ UK /fˈɑːmstɛd/ ]
NOUN
- a farm together with its buildings
- the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm
How To Use farmstead In A Sentence
- Even in smaller hamlets or regions of scattered farmsteads, forms of interdependence may be recognized in early laws and custumals.
- Place where the reeds grow (LXX. and Copt. read "farmstead"), the name of a place in Egypt where the children of Israel encamped (Ex. 14: 2, 9), how long is uncertain. Easton's Bible Dictionary
- Back from the river stretched a maze of fields tended by small farmsteads. Fire The Sky
- There are tractors and wagons in the fields, fellows on them waiting to take the wheat from the combine and load it into storage bins on a farmstead hereabouts, or into a semi that will take the wheat to town.
- The chronicles state that the abbey established a large farmstead - known as a grange - 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, and that a water mill was soon added.
- The farmstead had storage pits, drying frames and granaries, and was surrounded by a stockade.
- Often churches are isolated, serving widely scattered farmsteads.
- Noel lives in a restored farmstead on a farm near Dewitt, Michigan.
- Of the 2.1 million people who counted as farmers, about 1.3 million of them live in a farmstead in rural America. Vilsack: ‘I took it as a slam on rural America’
- Murton Grange is a spick-and-span farmstead all in white.