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back home

back home adverb: in one’s hometown.

Adverb

back home (not comparable)

  1. In one’s hometown.
    • the folks back home

Questions about back home

What does back home mean?
Back home means in one’s hometown.
What part of speech is back home?
Back home is an adverb.

Words near back home in the dictionary

  1. back grays
  2. back ground
  3. back grounds
  4. back history
  5. back hole
  6. back home
  7. back house
  8. back houses
  9. back in
  10. back in day
  11. back in the day

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