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homeworld

homeworld

5 7.4
A place where a person or group feels most comfortable and at ease
  • noun
  • /ˈhoʊmˌwɜrld/
translation icon : mundo propio
  • 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

  • I needed to restore my honor and be the warrior my homeworld deserved.

  • 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

home
vshomeworld
1.0

A place where someone lives and feels they belong

refers to a larger original environment where people or groups feel rooted
homeland
vshomeworld
177 3.1

The country where someone is born or where they feel they belong

is a wider native environment concept not limited to a single country
home ground
vshomeworld
2 3.6

A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field

is the broader original environment or native world beyond any single venue

Antonyms

685 4.1

From another place and not familiar there

How Comfortable

homeland
177 3.1
homeworld
5 7.4
new world
87 5.1

Surface Forms

homeworld singular
homeworlds plural

Morphology

homeworld = home + world (transparent) = home + world

A direct compound of 'home' + 'world' whose meaning (the world where one is at home/originates) is directly derivable from its parts.

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.