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home-bred

home-bred is the alternative form of homebred.

Meaning of homebred

Adjective

homebred (not comparable)

  1. Born or raised in one's own home or country; native, indigenous.
  2. Homely or rustic; plain, unpolished.

See all 4 meanings of homebred

Forms of home-bred

pluralhome-breds

Questions about home-bred

What is home-bred the alternative form of?
Home-bred is the alternative form of homebred.

Words near home-bred in the dictionary

  1. home-along
  2. home-and-away
  3. home-and-home
  4. home-bodies
  5. home-body
  6. home-bred
  7. home-brew
  8. home-brewed
  9. home-brewing
  10. home-brewn
  11. home-brews

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-bred (page history and authors); homebred (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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