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Homestead vs Abode - What's the difference?

homestead | abode |

As nouns the difference between homestead and abode

is that homestead is a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm while abode is act of waiting; delay.

As verbs the difference between homestead and abode

is that homestead is to acquire or settle on land as a homestead while abode is past tense of abide.

homestead

English

Noun

(wikipedia homestead) (en noun)
  • a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
    • (Dryden)
  • the place that is one's home
  • (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
  • The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
  • * W. Tooke
    • We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.

    Verb

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

    • See also

    * hstead * homesteading * smallholding

    abode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
    • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
  • (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • * 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
    • He waxeth at your abode here.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
    • of no fixed abode .
  • * (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
    • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abide)

    • Etymology 2

    * From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  • * High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -

    • Verb

    (abod)
  • (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be ominous.
    • Derived terms
    * abodement * aboding

    See also

    * dwelling

    References

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