"homesteads" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to refer to land that has been set aside for the purpose of settling down and building a home, although the term can also be used in other contexts. Example sentence: "Several homesteads were established along the western boundary of the preserve."
Others are brought in by family members who have discovered them in the dusty corners and keep-sake cabinets of old homesteads or from deceased estates.
Visit them in their homesteads as they demonstrate how they produce and process coffee, from plant to aromatic Cafédirect cup.
Their bodies were cut up for parts that became sought-after antiquities in colonial homesteads across Australia and in cultural, medical and educational institutions across the US, Britain and continental Europe.
While the 18th- and 19th-century trade in body parts hinged largely on an export market (as well as on private collectors: stories abound of Aboriginal skulls adorning drawing room mantles in pastoral homesteads), in the 1900s Australian institutions were amassing very big collections, too.
Abandoned homesteads are hollow shells on distant hilltops, the only landmarks among endless brown grass.
His most ardent fans are invited to build homesteads in "Paulville", an empty patch of west Texas.
His state of the nation address last Thursday descended into chaos and fisticuffs when armed security were called to remove the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters EFFF) after they raised questions over lavish public spending on Zuma's rural homestead.
Explore the marae (homestead) of Maori chef Charles Royal, staying with his whanau (family) on the coast at Te Kaha, near Rotorua.
Sammy the demolition man (Who flattened the poet's house In Ashley Avenue, its roof Crashing into that homestead, Then all the floors, poetry And conversation collapsing) Slices the sawdusty tons, Wooden manhole-covers, An imagined underground.
Several were looking into allegations that taxpayers had footed more than their share of the bill for a 246m-rand ($21m) "security" upgrade to the president's palatial private homestead, known as Nklandla, in the hills of KwaZulu Natal.
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, if the immigrants staked out 160 acres and farmed it for five years, they owned it and their descendants own the mineral rights.
