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A homesteader is a person who lives on a homestead and works that land — usually farming it, keeping animals, and making a home there, not just sleeping there. In United States history the word is quite exact: under the Homestead Act, the government gave people a piece of land if they would live on it, build, and farm it for a set number of years. That is why American family stories still say “my great-grandfather was a homesteader.” People use it more loosely now for someone who tries to live off the land and do a lot themselves, often far from the city. It is not an everyday British word; it sounds American, and a little country or old-fashioned. You would not call a person in a city flat a homesteader, even if they work from home, and you would not use it for someone who merely owns a house.
宅地農、自耕開墾者（美國史上領公地去住、去種的人；現在也泛指想靠自己的地過日子的人）
組成homestead (a home plus the land you work) + -er (a person who does that).
同家族的字
- homesteadthe home and land a homesteader lives on and works
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
homesteadernoun/ˈhəʊmstɛdə(ɹ)/
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A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.
- In my rambles I continually came upon homesteaders striving to drain the valleys and raise grass for their cattle, while simultaneously the beavers were working to maintain high water.
- A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。