Thesaurus results for SMALLHOLDING

smallholding

noun

Definition of smallholding

chiefly British

as in homestead

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Recent Examples of smallholding The concise menu – which is chalked up each day on a blackboard – uses produce from the restaurant’s nearby smallholding. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 23 Feb. 2026 Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool. — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018 Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf. — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025 Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters. — Time, 5 Apr. 2018

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Noun

DeSantis has made increases in local government budgets since 2019 a key part of his pitch for the homestead change.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 30 June 2026
DeSantis’ property tax plan would have raised the homestead exemption to $250,000 from the current $50,000 cap.

— Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026

Definition of homestead

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In 1984, Baker married Emmy Award-winning lyricist and singer-songwriter Dory Previn, and the two eventually left Los Angeles to settle into an old farmhouse in Southfield, Massachusetts, the Berkshires.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 July 2026
Schallau’s specialty is saison, a style of farmhouse ales bursting with complex flavors, such as Bourgeois Daydreams, a pale golden table beer featuring notes of makrut lime leaves and Meyer lemon.

— Midwest Living, Midwest Living, 1 July 2026

Definition of farmhouse

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Mignon Armistead Dunn was born in Memphis on June 17, 1928, and moved with her family to a cotton plantation at Tyronza in Poinsett County at an early age, David Sesser wrote for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

— Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2026
Yet the South soon got up off its feet and reasserted the plantation ethos, while the North surrendered the cause of racial equality in the name of national reconciliation.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

Definition of plantation

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The first wind phone was created in 2010 by Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki after the loss of his cousin to cancer and then later was dedicated to lives lost in the 2011 tsunami.

— Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Leave some messiness in your garden and leave the leaves, as decaying leaves are great habitat for fireflies.

— Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 5 July 2026

Definition of garden

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The actress played estate owner Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, who is forced to sell her manor following the death of her husband.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Hallowed Halls turns your home into a stately Victorian manor, complete with spooky portraits, eerie black-and-gold decor, and even a few séance essentials.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2026

Definition of manor

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In 2010, more than a dozen apple growers sued the University of Minnesota for awarding exclusive rights to its SweeTango apple to an orchard that organized a cooperative of growers to market the variety.

— Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Set in the San Bernardino Mountains (like Big Bear Lake and Lake Arrowhead), Oak Glen is home to acres of apple orchards, bed-and-breakfasts, and a family fun park, Oak Tree Mountain.

— Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026

Definition of orchard

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Diego is the big-hearted and good-natured owner of a small hacienda and husband to Doña Gabriella (Audrey Dana).

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
The story centers around a woman who inherits a mysterious hacienda filled with magic, secrets and unexpected connections that begin to reshape her life.

— Stephanie Hope, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of hacienda

Noun

Crossing to Scotland, Lerwick adds Shetland ponies and stone crofts, Kirkwall delivers Norse-meets-Scottish history and Skara Brae-era vibes, and Edinburgh’s skyline crowns it with castle views before the elegant glide up the Thames to Greenwich.

— Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.

— Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025

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