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homegrown

homegrown adjective: raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.

Adjective

homegrown (not comparable)

  1. Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.
    • Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables.
  2. (broadly) Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced.
    • The young politician is a homegrown talent we are all proud of here.
    • One had never stepped in a rowing boat until 2008, the other will return to serve in the Royal Artillery in September. But Glover and Stanning will now go down in the record books as the first homegrown gold medallists of the London 2012 Olympics.2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited

Noun

homegrown (plural homegrowns)

  1. Someone or something which originated locally.
    • Union head coach Jim Curtin, a lifelong Philadelphian, has made it clear that signing homegrowns will be a priority for him moving forward.2015 July 14, Dave Zeitlin, “Will Philadelphia Union's high-school create USA's next soccer stars?”, in The Guardian
  2. (broadly, derogatory) A native citizen of a country, especially a criminal, who has an ethnic, cultural and/or religious background that is different from the country’s historical majority, and is therefore perceived as foreign despite formal citizenship.

homegrown meaning in Tamil and Bengali

homegrown in Tamil

உள்நாட்டில் விளைந்த

homegrown in Bengali

নিজ দেশে, বাড়িতে উৎপাদিত, স্বদেশীয়

Forms of homegrown

Adjective
alternative formhome-grown
Noun
pluralhomegrowns

Origin of homegrown

From home + grown.

Questions about homegrown

What does homegrown mean?
Homegrown means raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.
What is homegrown in Tamil?
Homegrown in Tamil is உள்நாட்டில் விளைந்த. See Homegrown meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is homegrown?
Homegrown can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near homegrown in the dictionary

  1. homegoing
  2. homegoings
  3. homeground
  4. homegroup
  5. homegroups
  6. homegrown
  7. homegrowns
  8. homeiness
  9. homeish
  10. homekeeper
  11. homekeepers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homegrown (page history and authors); homegrown (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Homegrown (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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