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homegoing

homegoing noun: a voyage or journey home.

Noun

homegoing (plural homegoings)

  1. A voyage or journey home.
    • On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath - which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical...1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 47
  2. An African-American Christian funeral rite marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven.

Forms of homegoing

pluralhomegoings

Origin of homegoing

From home + going.

Questions about homegoing

What does homegoing mean?
Homegoing means a voyage or journey home.
What part of speech is homegoing?
Homegoing is a noun.
What is the plural of homegoing?
The plural of homegoing is homegoings.

Words near homegoing in the dictionary

  1. homegate
  2. homegirl
  3. homegirls
  4. homegoer
  5. homegoers
  6. homegoing
  7. homegoings
  8. homeground
  9. homegroup
  10. homegroups
  11. homegrown

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