homeworld
- noun
- /ˈhoʊmˌwɜrld/
- He sometimes wondered if there was something wrong with him, that he didn't become as jaded by it as everyone else. Do you ever get this sort of feeling for your homeworld? Charlie asked, as they bobbed and bumped over the landscape.
Examples
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I needed to restore my honor and be the warrior my homeworld deserved.
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She grew up on Earth with a strange childhood and ends up back in her homeworld, which she's never seen before.
Blog text (19) -
We wanted to keep our homeworld press from following us.
Fiction book (1999) -
But here on the homeworld, he could not avoid the importance of empathy and shared experience.
Fiction book (1999) -
"The disruptors are under the homeworld's control.
Fiction book (2000) -
But it did: there seemed to be no underclass on the Aurigan homeworld.
Fiction book (1999) -
Ray heard the strains of Rokey's favorite homeworld orchestra starting up a familiar theme.
Fiction book (2000) -
The whole story ends happily, as emphasized by the image of Tommy and Buck trading dirty jokes about their respective homeworld females (343).
Academic text (1990) -
Though human, she'd been genetically adjusted to her homeworld, Beta Charonis; her bones looked almost delicate, but her muscles were long, tireless strings.
Fiction book (2000) -
After years of exploration, she finally returned to her homeworld, where she felt truly at peace.
Synonyms
A place where someone lives and feels they belong
The country where someone is born or where they feel they belong
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word homeworld is made of home ('where you feel comfortable') and world ('the place or environment you live in'), so it means the place or setting where a person or group feels most at home.