homespun
/ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/
homespun adjective: spun in the home.
Adjective
homespun (not comparable)
- Spun in the home.
- Woven in the home.
- Made from homespun fabric.
- homespun country garbs1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington
- He became more and more excited; he rose from the sofa, walked up and down the floor with hurried steps and fought with his hands in the air, till the light flickered hither and thither, while the sweeping tail of his long grey home-spun coat described long circles every time he swung himself round...1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250
- Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.
- homespun wisdom
- our homespun English proverb1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- down-home, cracker-barrel
Noun
homespun (countable and uncountable, plural homespuns)
- Fabric made from homespun yarn; clothing made from it. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.
- There are four men, heavily bearded and more than a little dirty, and two young women, all of them busy with shovels in or around an opened grave and all dressed identically in shirts and trousers of tattered homespun.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC
- By this time, his rough homespun had been cast off for a suit of buff and blue, with buckskin breeches, his muddy brogans for the latest top boots.1927, Joseph Auslander, Frank Ernest Hill, Theresa West Elmendorf, The Winged Horse, page 220
- An unpolished, rustic person.
- What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
homespun meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Odia
homespun in Hindi
- homespun; handmade cloth
- खादी khādī
homespun in Urdu
- دیسی, سادہ
homespun in Malayalam
- സ്വഗൃഹത്തിൽ നൂറ്റെടുത്ത, നാട്ടിൽ നൂറ്റെടുത്ത, വിദേശനിർമ്മിതമല്ലാത്ത
homespun in Odia
- homespun
- ଖଦଡ଼ khadaṛa
Examples of homespun in a sentence
- our homespun authors must forsake the field1707, Joseph Addison, Prologue to Phaedra and Hippolitus (spoken by Mr. Wilkes, written by Edmund Smith)
- The new cardinal was no theologian – his approach was more homespun – but his commitment to poor people was every bit as strong as that of the liberation theologians.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of homespun
Forms of homespun
| plural | homespuns |
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Origin of homespun
From home + spun.
Words formed from homespun
Questions about homespun
- What does homespun mean?
- Homespun means spun in the home.
- What is homespun in Hindi?
- Homespun in Hindi is खादी (khādī). See Homespun meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use homespun in a sentence?
- our homespun authors must forsake the field
- What part of speech is homespun?
- Homespun can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce homespun?
- Homespun is pronounced /ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/ (US).
Words near homespun in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: homespun (page history and authors); खादी (Hindi) (page history and authors); homespun (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); homespun (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଖଦଡ଼ (Odia) (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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