Meanings
plural doomsteaders
- A survivalist; one who engages in doomsteading.
Doomsteaders may do well to revive the common practice from the pre-Cornucopian South of having a kitchen separate from the main house.
2009, “Practical Doomsteading: Summer Kitchen.”, in The Old Horseman's Blog3 more examples
You might call him a doomsteader; he's burrowed into his land like a tick, he's got earthworks and ponds and goats and hugels and trees from Stark Brothers.
2015 February 26, Dan Boone, “Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)My first internet communications and discussion on Doom concepts came on the Peak Oil Forum in 2008-2009, and there I ran into the whole panoply of Doomer Archetypes, Survivalists, Nazi Eugenecists, Permaculturists and of course the Doomsteaders, which is where the Doomstead Diner title for this Blog comes from.
2015 June 27, Reverse Engineer, “Boomer Doomers”, in Doomstead Diner'Doomsteading,' said Sir Owen. 'That's what they call it. Bunking down for the end of the world. They're doomsteaders, that's the word.'
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 134
Origin
Blend of doom + homesteader.
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doomsteader. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doomsteader
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