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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 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 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, 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

The series of three mailers read Grasso had claimed homestead exemptions — a property tax break reserved for a person’s primary residence — on both his Burr Ridge home and a Chicago condo, according to court records.

— Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Moraitis backs Florida’s Amendment 3, the ballot measure that would increase the homestead exemption for all non-school taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of homestead

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But centering a nearly dead Cathy Ames (Florence Pugh) is Kazan’s entire intention with this project, and snagging us with the image of her bloody body crawling toward the Trasks’ farmhouse is a tip of the hand toward where East of Eden is going.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Say goodbye to matching furniture sets, gray color schemes, and overdone modern farmhouse staples.

— Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of farmhouse

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My mother had a 4th grade education and worked on a sharecropping tobacco plantation.

— Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026
Initial rumors were fueled by local innuendo and supported by records aligning Hemings’ pregnancies with Jefferson’s presence at his plantation home of Monticello in Virginia.

— Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of plantation

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Each episode follows one garden over an extended period, capturing animal behavior rarely witnessed by human eyes – from raising families and defending territories to hunting, courting and surviving the changing seasons.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Here the 40,000-square-foot wellness facility—the largest dedicated spa on Shura Island—includes 39 indoor and outdoor treatment rooms that overlook lagoons and gardens.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2026

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The drama turns on a young woman, victim of spike drinking at a lavish New Year’s Eve party in a remote manor.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
In an Edwardian manor near Grosvenor Square—where sprawling shopping destinations Regents Street and New Bond Street are there for window gawking—the 31 rooms prove to be a welcome respite from city noise.

— Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of manor

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So when the Israeli evacuation orders drove his family to the Nuseirat refugee camp in October 2023, the shape of his orchard remained mapped in his mind – row upon row of grapevines and grids of fig trees, each 4 yards from its neighbor.

— Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
Many of the orchards at Apple Hill opened to the public in August, The Sacramento Bee reported.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of orchard

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, Marilyn purchased the 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival-style hacienda for $75,000 in early 1962.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of hacienda

Noun

That simple statement sums up not only the slender margin of survival in the crofts, but also the tectonic collision between waning subsistence living on the remote western islands and the explosion of excess and spending in 1990s mainland Scotland.

— Paula Cooper, CBS News, 5 May 2026
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

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