Homesteader

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homesteader \Home"stead*er\, n.
     One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with
     the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of
     the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a
     homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  homesteader
       n : someone who settles lawfully on government land with the
           intent to acquire title to it [syn: {squatter}, {nester}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "homesteader":
     colonial, colonist, colonizer, hirer, immigrant, incumbent,
     leaseholder, lessee, lodger, nester, occupant, occupier,
     paying guest, pioneer, planter, precursor, renter, resident,
     roomer, settler, sooner, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant,
     tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, underlessee