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Homestead vs Homeland - What's the difference?

homestead | homeland |

As nouns the difference between homestead and homeland

is that homestead is a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm while homeland is one's country of residence.

As a verb homestead

is to acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

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

    homeland

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia homeland)
  • One's country of residence.
  • One's country of birth.
  • The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
  • (South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.