homesteadernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhəʊmˌsted.ər/us/ˈhoʊmˌsted.ɚ/USsomeone who goes to live and grow crops on land given by the government, especially in the past:
In the 1800s, thousands of homesteaders settled on the prairies of the western US.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Farmers & farm workers
- croft
- farmer
- farmhand
- landholding
- market garden
- pastoralist
- peasant
- peon
- picker
- ploughman
- plowman
- rancher
- ryot
- sharecropper
- smallholder
- squatter
- truck farm
- yeoman