backyard vs homestead

backyard

noun
  • A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. 

  • An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest. 

  • A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go. 

homestead

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

  • The place that is one's home. 

  • 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. 

  • A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family. 

verb
  • To acquire or settle on land as a homestead. 

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