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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land for agriculture or animal breeding |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, arboretum, claim, demense, enclosure, estate, farmstead, field, freehold, garden, grange, grassland, holding, homestead, lawn, meadow, nursery, orchard, pasture, patch, plantation, ranch, soil, vineyard |
| Main Entry: | estate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extensive manor and its property |
| Synonyms: | acreage, area, country home, country place, demesne, domain, dominion, farm, finca, freehold, grounds, holdings, lands, parcel, plantation, quinta, ranch, residence, rural seat, territory, villa |
| Main Entry: | home |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where a human lives |
| Synonyms: | abode, address, apartment, asylum, boarding house, bungalow, cabin, castle, cave*, co-op, commorancy, condo, condominium, cottage, crash pad, diggings, digs, domicile, dormitory, dump*, dwelling, farm, fireside, flat, habitation, hangout, haunt, hearth, hideout, hole in the wall, home plate, homestead, hospital, house, hut, joint*, living quarters, manor, mansion, nest*, orphanage, pad, palace, parking place, place, residence, resort, roof*, rooming house, roost, shanty, shelter, trailer, turf, villa, where the hat is |
| Notes: | hone means to sharpen, while home (in) means to seek out a target; you can hone a skill but you home in on something a house is the building or structure in which one lives; home is the place one lives with the pleasant connotations or family ties included |
| Antonyms: | office |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | home |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birthplace, environment |
| Synonyms: | abode, camping ground, country, element, family, farm, fireside, habitat, habitation, haunt, haven, hearth, hills, home ground, homeland, homestead, hometown, household, land, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, range, roof, site, soil, stamping ground, stomping ground, territory |
| Notes: | hone means to sharpen, while home (in) means to seek out a target; you can hone a skill but you home in on something a house is the building or structure in which one lives; home is the place one lives with the pleasant connotations or family ties included |
| Main Entry: | property |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possessions, real estate |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, assets, belongings, buildings, capital, chattels, claim, dominion, effects, equity, estate, farm, freehold, goods, holdings, home, house, inheritance, land, means, ownership, plot, possessorship, premises, proprietary, proprietorship, realty, resources, riches, substance, title, tract, wealth, worth |
| Main Entry: | backcountry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area |
| Synonyms: | boondocks, boonies, bush, farm, hinterlands, sticks |
| Main Entry: | kibbutz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collective farm |
| Synonyms: | collective, commune, farm, hora, settlement |
| Main Entry: | holding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | property held |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, assets, belongings, buildings, capital, chattels, claim, dominion, effects, equity, estate, farm, freehold, goods*, holdings, home, house, inheritance, land, means, ownership, plot, possession, possessorship, premises, property, proprietar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
| Synonyms: | back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolis, urbanity |
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