habitation vs homestead

habitation and homestead both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
habitation	Yes	No	No	No
homestead	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, homestead is a hyponym of habitation; that is, homestead is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than habitation:

habitation (noun)	homestead (noun)
the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)	dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
housing that someone is living in	the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
the native habitat or home of an animal or plant	land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

habitation (verb)	homestead (verb)
	settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead