farmstead

English

a quaint Scottish farmstead

Map including several areas with "Numerous farmsteads" (DMA, 1983)

Etymology

From farm +‎ stead, modelled after homestead.

Noun

farmstead (plural farmsteads)

1. The main building of a farm.
2. A farm, including its buildings.
   • 1974, Tunji Oyelana, “Which Way Africa”:

     Young people no longer work on the farmstead
     They go to school and to the big town instead

Related terms

• farmsteading

Translations

main building of a farm

• Belarusian: сядзі́ба f (sjadzíba)
• Danish: stuehus n
• Dutch: hoeve (nl) c
• German: Bauernhaus (de) n
• Italian: cascina (it) f
• Latin: fundus (la)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våningshus n (literally “woning house”)

• Polish: sadyba (pl) f
• Romanian: fermă (ro) f
• Russian: уса́дьба (ru) f (usádʹba)
• Ukrainian: сади́ба f (sadýba)

farm including its buildings

• Armenian: ագարակ (hy) (agarak)
• Belarusian: сядзі́ба f (sjadzíba), падво́р'е n (padvórʺje), ху́тар m (xútar) (khutor)
• Danish: landejendom (da) c, landsted
• Dutch: hoeve (nl) c
• German: Gehöft (de) n
• Ingrian: tila, maapaikka
• Italian: cascinale f, fattoria (it) f, podere (it) m, tenuta (it) f
• Mòcheno: hoff m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gård (no) m, bondegård m

• Polish: sadyba (pl) f
• Portuguese: quintã, quintão
• Romanian: fermă (ro) f
• Russian: уса́дьба (ru) f (usádʹba), подво́рье (ru) n (podvórʹje), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor) (khutor), фе́рма (ru) f (férma)
• Scots: toun
• Ukrainian: сади́ба f (sadýba), подві́р'я n (podvírʺja), ху́тір (uk) m (xútir) (khutor)

References

• “farmstead”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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