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homegoings

homegoings is the plural of homegoing.

Meaning of homegoing

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.

Questions about homegoings

What is homegoings the plural of?
Homegoings is the plural of homegoing.

Words near homegoings in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homegoings (page history and authors); homegoing (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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