Word Meanings - FARMSTEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

Related words: (words related to FARMSTEAD)

• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• HOMESTEADER
  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.
• HOMESTEAD
  The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law. A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead
• BUILDING
  1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• PLEASANTLY
  In a pleasant manner.
• BUILD
  bilden, AS. byldan to build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bol farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, böle, house, dwelling, fr. root 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a
• PLEASANT
  1. Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1. 2. Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous;
• PLEASANTRY
  That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• REBUILD
  To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
• UNBUILD
  To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.
• UNPLEASANTRY
  1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.
• DISPLEASANT
  Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. Speed. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ly, adv. Strype. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ness, n.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• OUTBUILDING
  A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.