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homeling

homeling noun: a native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.

Noun

homeling (plural homelings)

  1. (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
    • […] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries
    Synonyms:
    resident

Synonyms of homeling

Forms of homeling

pluralhomelings

Origin of homeling

From home + -ling.

Questions about homeling

What does homeling mean?
Homeling means a native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
What part of speech is homeling?
Homeling is a noun.
What is the plural of homeling?
The plural of homeling is homelings.

Words near homeling in the dictionary

  1. homelike
  2. homelikeness
  3. homelily
  4. homeliness
  5. homelinesses
  6. homeling
  7. homelings
  8. homelives
  9. homely
  10. homely as a hedge fence
  11. homelyn

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