as in pioneer
a person who settles in a new region
in the 1800s homesteaders in search of cheap land and a new life headed to the West in droves
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Recent Examples of homesteader
Ree Drummond, Food Network star and famous homesteader, just dropped her biggest furniture collection to date at Walmart.
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Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Anderson believes most of Florida’s raw milk sellers are homesteaders, many of them born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were stuck at home and began turning to new practices such as baking homemade sourdough bread, growing fresh vegetables in a backyard garden, and even farming.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Now, my grandmother was sort of a California hillbilly, the eldest of 17 kids, and her dad was a homesteader and a medicine showman.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Anderson believes most of Florida’s raw milk sellers are homesteaders, many of them born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were stuck at home and began turning to new practices such as baking homemade sourdough bread, growing fresh vegetables in a backyard garden, and even farming.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Now, my grandmother was sort of a California hillbilly, the eldest of 17 kids, and her dad was a homesteader and a medicine showman.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homesteader
Noun
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William Arruda is a keynote speaker, author, and personal branding pioneer.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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Brian Wilson, leader of The Beach Boys, widely acknowledged as one of America’s all-time greatest composers, a pioneer of advanced studio techniques, and one of the most sensitive chroniclers of the Californian experience, has died at age 82.—
Barry Walters,
Billboard,
11 June 2025
Noun
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But European settlers and trappers killed off most of the big cats living in the eastern two-thirds of the continent.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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Biden’s sanctions on some West Bank settlers were eliminated.—
ALUF BENN,
Foreign Affairs,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Seventeenth-century colonists believed that hairstyling—such as its ornamentation and its length—offered important evidence of a person’s social identity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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The thousands of white French colonists who fled Haiti and arrived in American communities after a particular moment of disruption in June 1793 were met with open arms, receiving support from private groups, state governments, and the U.S. Congress alike.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
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“Homesteader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homesteader. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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