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homelings

homelings is the plural of homeling.

Meaning of homeling

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

Questions about homelings

What is homelings the plural of?
Homelings is the plural of homeling.

Words near homelings in the dictionary

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

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