home-grown
home-grown adjective: having been grown in one's home garden, etc., rather than in a larger agricultural production.
Adjective
home-grown (comparative more home-grown, superlative most home-grown)
- Having been grown in one's home garden, etc., rather than in a larger agricultural production.
- Our neighbours brought us some beautiful home-grown tomatoes.
- Having been produced locally.
- We not only have to cultivate our home-grown talent better, but we also need to stimulate the flow of talent into our country.2007, John Kao, Innovation Nation: How America is Losing Its Innovation Edge, why it Matters., page 228
- Beyond the mere existence of a dictionary, what is required is the acceptance of the notion of a home-grown standardised variety in the language community itself.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115
Forms of home-grown
| comparative | more home-grown |
|---|---|
| superlative | most home-grown |
| alternative form | homegrown |
Questions about home-grown
- What does home-grown mean?
- Home-grown means having been grown in one's home garden, etc., rather than in a larger agricultural production.
- What part of speech is home-grown?
- Home-grown is an adjective.
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