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noun
The act or event of returning home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
In high schools and colleges, a tradition centered around a football game, a parade and the coronation of a Homecoming Queen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, also, attributive
Synonyms: hoco
Antonyms: none provided
noun
In high schools and colleges, a tradition centered around a football game, a parade and the coronation of a Homecoming Queen.
Ellipsis of harvest homecoming, a traditional (street) party and/or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms. It traditionally marks the start of harvest break, where students go home in autumn to harvest the crops on the family farms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, abbreviation, also, alt-of, attributive, ellipsis
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hoco
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a coming to or returning home
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: return
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arrival
Narrower terms: repatriation
noun
an annual school or university reunion for graduates
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reunion, reunification
History
From Middle English hom-comyng, home komyng, home-cumyng, home-commynge, equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come, homkome, hame-come, ham-cume, from Old English hāmcyme (“homecoming; return”).
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
