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/hˈoʊmkˌəmɪŋ/ Listen

noun

home-coming, homecoming n.

A return home. "Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge."

A social event, usually held annually at colleges and universities, to welcome visiting alumni; a type of school reunion for graduates.

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Etymology of 'Homecoming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Homecoming" Quotes from Famous Books

... the empty wallflower bed. "If it's looking tidy, perhaps he won't notice anything's wrong when he first comes home," she thought. "When he's less tired he'll be able to bear the disappointment better." She knew that if he missed his flowers one of his chief pleasures in his homecoming would be gone, and she almost dreaded to hear the sound of his footsteps because of the disappointment in store for him. Because she could not bear to see it, she stayed in the kitchen, and only Mona went out to meet him. Lucy heard his loved voice, hoarse ...

— The Making of Mona • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... feel that in the pleasure and excitement of his life he had grown away from his mother and brother. Each summer he had said, "Well, now I'll go home this year sure." But a new play to be produced, or a yachting trip, or a tour of Europe, had put the homecoming off; and now it was with a distinct consciousness of neglect of duty that he walked up to the fence and looked into the yard, where William had told him ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... upon the homecoming of the daughter of the house, to Middlefield to learn dressmaking, boarding with Linnet and "working her board." Linnet was lonely at night; she began to feel lonely as dusk came on; and the arrangement of board for one and pleasant ...

— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin

... painful homecoming, I expect. However, he patiently set to work to restore his father's work. He managed to persuade his mother and brother to return and live in white man's fashion, but they made his life a hell for him, according to all accounts. They were insanely jealous ...

— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

... had been at work within the house as well. Cosey corners and modern wall paper and fittings such as I had seen at the professors' houses and had described at home to auditors apparently slightly interested, had been remembered and treasured up and here attempted, to make my homecoming a festivity. The house had been transformed, and if not always in the best of taste, love shone ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

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