doomsteader

English

Etymology

Blend of doom +‎ homesteader

Noun

doomsteader (plural doomsteaders)

1. A survivalist; one who engages in doomsteading.
   • 2009, “Practical Doomsteading: Summer Kitchen.”, in The Old Horseman's Blog‎^[1]:

     Doomsteaders may do well to revive the common practice from the pre-Cornucopian South of having a kitchen separate from the main house.

   • 2015 February 26, Dan Boone, “Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]:

     You might call him a doomsteader; he's burrowed into his land like a tick, he's got earthworks and ponds and goats and hugels and trees from Stark Brothers.

   • 2015 June 27, Reverse Engineer, “Boomer Doomers”, in Doomstead Diner‎^[3]:

     My first internet communications and discussion on Doom concepts came on the Peak Oil Forum in 2008-2009, and there I ran into the whole panoply of Doomer Archetypes, Survivalists, Nazi Eugenecists, Permaculturists and of course the Doomsteaders, which is where the Doomstead Diner title for this Blog comes from.

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 134:

     'Doomsteading,' said Sir Owen. 'That's what they call it. Bunking down for the end of the world. They're doomsteaders, that's the word.'