croft

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of croft Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967. John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croft
Noun
  • Hawkins noted that Crain had strep and a urinary tract infection, wrote up a prescription and discharged her.
    Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Derek’s oldest son, Dallas, was rushed into emergency surgery at Valley Children’s Healthcare in 2013 because of intestinal malrotation, a potentially life-threatening condition that affected his blood supply and intestinal tract, and spent several weeks there.
    Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Yes, and: Georgia voters will also vote on ballot measures affecting homestead exemptions, personal property exemptions and the state's tax court.
    Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Specifically, Colorado will consider Amendment G, which would expand veterans' eligibility for property tax exemption—currently, the homestead exemption is available only to veterans with a complete and total disability.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Michael said that if the group can even become a clearing house for statistics on distracted driving, that is a victory.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Photos shared by the fire department show the mangled tower draped across a dirt clearing behind a line of homes.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Later, tidy plats of cinder block-and-concrete houses for snowbirds and beach motels scattered Anna Maria Island as new properties developed along the gorgeous shore.
    Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Penman alleges Cassilly rushed through and approved a plat, or land use plan, for property owned by his brother, Joseph Cassilly.
    Ben Terzi, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Where to stay: Head to Troutbeck for a stay in a dreamy historic manor with rich interior design.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Studio 131, has hosted it the past few years, and this year’s event featured a Trunk or Treat, vendor market, and a haunted manor at its event venue space on Oct. 13.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • More news: Former Angels, Tigers, Phillies Pitcher Passes Away The Stadium at ESPN's Wide World of Sports in Orlando features a natural grass field.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Es Con Field Hokkaido is a stadium on the Japanese island of Hokkaido with a grass field, retractable roof and space for 35,000 spectators.
    Oliver Horovitz, contributor, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This book is not only a retelling of the crime—a story that Till’s family, among others, has already published—but also a rich and wandering history of the township in which Till died: the few square miles of plantations that helped birth both the blues and the Ku Klux Klan.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Rather than growing crops that could sustain the local food supply, the Europeans who began arriving in the 1600s focused on exploitative extractive economic models and export cash crops through the plantation economy.
    Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018

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“Croft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croft. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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