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homecome

homecome adjective: having arrived home.

Adjective

homecome (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Having arrived home.
    • the conqueror, the homecome hero / The soldier, Agamemnon / Bleeds in her conscience1998, Melanie Boney Williams, John Jacob Niles' John Jacob Niles's Settings of the Early P s Settings of the Early Poetry of Thomas Mer y of Thomas Merton in "The Niles-Merton Songs", Opp. 171 and 172
    • Now carol the birds at dawn, and some new lay / Announceth a homecome voyager every day.2011, Robert Bridges, “The Months: March”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges

Noun

homecome (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) An arrival or a return to one's home or native place.
    • Only ereyesternight had things settled enough so that I begged leave to join my housemates, and maybe I too had been lagging. Happily Lady-Mother gave it, though also with the question I had dreaded even ere homecome: when shall we set for my bridetide?2020s, Reid Sisson, A Castrovel Adventure: Part 3, Chapter 46

Origin of homecome

Ancestral form of the term homecoming.

Questions about homecome

What does homecome mean?
Homecome means having arrived home.
What part of speech is homecome?
Homecome can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near homecome in the dictionary

  1. homecare
  2. homecarer
  3. homecarers
  4. homecation
  5. homecations
  6. homecome
  7. homecomer
  8. homecomers
  9. homecoming
  10. Homecoming King
  11. Homecoming Kings

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