The area immediately surrounding a house, especially dooryard areas and sometimes including closely associated buildings and structures.
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.
To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.