homecoming
- noun
- /ˈhoʊmˌkʌmɪŋ/
- After years abroad, his homecoming to the quaint village was filled with joyous reunions.
This is incredible emotional homecoming for all of the people of Ireland.
- This is incredible emotional homecoming for all of the people of Ireland.
- And when I got to India, it felt like a kind of homecoming.
- What is it if not intensified sky hurled through with birds and filled with the winds of homecoming?
Examples
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The community organized a parade to celebrate the homecoming of their beloved soldier.
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On the contrary, to most Chinese citizens, the return was the joyous homecoming of a long-lost cousin.
Academic text (2007) -
You made me miss my own homecoming dance.
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Is this what my homecoming is supposed to look like?
Fiction book (2002) -
This is incredible emotional homecoming for all of the people of Ireland.
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I'm giving a homecoming party for myself tomorrow.
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And you, my young friend, you are gonna get a hero's homecoming.
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Say, what do you say we go to Mario's to celebrate your homecoming?
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We'll celebrate the old man's homecoming.
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Coming back to Elk River will be a homecoming of sorts for Fischer.
Blog text (10)
Synonyms
An act of coming back to a place or state
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Homecoming comes from the words home and coming, which together mean 'coming home'. It refers to the act of returning to the place you belong after being away, so a homecoming is simply a return to your home or town.