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Homestead may refer to:
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- Homestead (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
- Nguni homestead, a cluster of houses inhabited by a single extended family, typically with a kraal attached
- Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres
- Homestead principle, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of unowned property through living on it
- Homestead Acts, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as homesteaders
- Homestead exemption (U.S. law), a legal program to protect the value of a residence from expenses and/or forced sale arising from the death of a spouse
- Homesteading, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency as practiced by a modern homesteader or urban homesteader
