A country homestead.homestead noun??? a place where a family makes its home, including the land, house, and outbuildingsLaw such a place occupied by the owner and his family and exempted from seizure or forced sale to meet general debts??? a tract of public land (160 acres by the of 1862) granted by the U.S. government to a settler to be developed as a farmOrigin of homesteadOld English hamstede: