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homestyle

homestyle adjective: cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.

Adjective

homestyle (not comparable)

  1. Cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
    • Dish out lots of homecooked foods like pot roast, meat loaf, Maine beans and franks, homestyle fries, fish chowder and fresh-baked breads[…]1994, Vermont Life, volumes 49-50, page 7
    • LUNETTA The Manhattan outpost of the Smith Street, Brooklyn, restaurant, opened Monday in the former Mayrose space, with homestyle Italian cooking by Adam Shepard, who is also a partner: 920 Broadway (21st Street), (212) 533-3663.2007 October 31, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times

Origin of homestyle

From home + style.

Questions about homestyle

What does homestyle mean?
Homestyle means cooked or prepared in a traditional manner as would be done at home.
What part of speech is homestyle?
Homestyle is an adjective.

Words near homestyle in the dictionary

  1. homestretches
  2. Homestuck
  3. Homestucker
  4. Homestuckers
  5. Homestucks
  6. homestyle
  7. hometeam
  8. hometeams
  9. hometime
  10. hometimes
  11. hometown

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