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English : habitational name from either of two places, in Cheshire and West Yorkshire, called Ledsham. The first is named with the Old English personal name LÄ“ofede + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’ and the second is recorded in Domesday Book as Ledesham ‘homestead within the district of Leeds’.
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English : habitational name from Hougham, Kent, probably so named from an unattested Old English personal name, Huhha, or possibly hÅh ‘spur of a hill’ (literally ‘heel’) + hÄm ‘homestead’.
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English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Isham, from the river name Ise (of Celtic origin) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘promontory’ or ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
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English (Lancashire) : habitational name from any of the many places in England so called, of which the most likely source for present-day bearers is that near Burnley. The place name is from Old English hÄ“ah ‘high’ + hÄm ‘homestead’.
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English : topographic name from Middle English infeld ‘land near the homestead or village’, or a habitational name from any of various minor places named with this term, for example In Field in Humberside or Infield House in Lancashire.
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English : habitational name from Letchworth, Hertfordshire, probably so named from an Old English lycce ‘enclosure’ (related to Old English loc ‘enclosure’) + worþ ‘(enclosure round a) homestead’.
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English : habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, as for example those in Dorset, Norfolk, Rutland, and Suffolk, were named from Old English lang ‘long’ + hÄm ‘homestead’, ‘enclosure’; but one in Essex is recorded in Domesday Book as Laingaham, from Old English LÄhhingahÄm ‘homestead of the people of Lahha’, and one in Lincolnshire originally had as its second element Old Norse holmr ‘island’.
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English : habitational name, perhaps from Leadenham in Lincolnshire, which is probably so named from an Old English personal name, LÄ“oda + hÄm ‘homestead’.Scottish : unexplained. Compare Ledingham.Perhaps a variant of Dutch Van Landingham.
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English : habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire, named in Old English as CÇ£gingahÄm, ‘homestead (Old English hÄ) of CÇ£ga’s people’.
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English : habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, named in Old English as ‘homestead at a (district) boundary’, from mearc ‘boundary’ + hÄm ‘homestead’.Irish : English surname used as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Marcacháin ‘descendant of Marcachán’, a diminutive of Marcach (see Markey). This is a Galway surname, which is sometimes ‘translated’ as Ryder.
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English : habitational name from Milby in North Yorkshire, named in Old Norse as ‘Mildi’s homestead’, from the personal name Mildi + býr ‘homestead’, ‘village’ (Old Danish by).
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English (chiefly Yorkshire and Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places so called, of which the largest are in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The place name is from the Old English personal name Inga + hÄm ‘homestead’. Some authorities believe the first element to be a word meaning ‘the Inguione’, from an ancient Germanic tribe known as the Inguiones.
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English : habitational name from any of various places so called, most of which were originally named with Old English hÄmstede or hÇ£mstede ‘homestead’. One Hempstead in Norfolk derives its name from Old English hænep ‘hemp’ + stede ‘place’, while Hempsted in Gloucestershire was originally ‘high homestead’ (Old English hÄ“ah + hÄmstede).
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English : habitational name from a place in Kent named Meopham, from an Old English personal name MÄ“apa + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’, ‘settlement’.
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English (Kent and Sussex)
English (Kent and Sussex) : habitational name from any of various places of this name, in particular one in the parish of Perching, Sussex, recorded as Homwood in about 1280; there were others in Chailey and Forest Row in Sussex. All are probably named from Middle English home ‘homestead’, ‘manor’ + wode ‘wood’.
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English : habitational name from Mitcham in Surrey, so named from Old English micel ‘big’ + hÄm ‘homestead’, ‘settlement’.
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English : apparently a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, possibly in Somerset or Wiltshire, where the surname is clustered, but perhaps a variant of Lopham, a habitational name from a place in Norfolk, so named from an Old English personal name Loppa + hÄm ‘homestead’.
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English : variant of Holm.
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English : habitational name from places in Devon, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire named Lynam, from Old English lÄ«n ‘flax’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.Irish : English surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Laidhghneáin (see Linehan).
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English : habitational name from Mileham in Norfolk, so named from Old English myln ‘mill’ + hÄm ‘homestead’.
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An unpolished, rustic person.
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One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
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The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
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Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
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Place of a home; homestead.
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Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept.
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A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
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The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
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A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively.
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Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
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The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
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Coarse; homespun; rustic.
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Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.
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Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
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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.
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The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.
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A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
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The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
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Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.
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Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.