Word.ws English Dictionary

Homewood

Homewood proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Homewood (countable and uncountable, plural Homewoods)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. An unincorporated community in south-central Manitoba, Canada.
  3. A city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Placer County, California, United States.
  5. A village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kansas, United States.
  7. A borough of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  8. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
  9. A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.

Forms of Homewood

pluralHomewoods

Origin of Homewood

Habitational surname from any of various minor places in England, from Old English hām (“homestead”) + wudu (“wood”).

Words formed from Homewood

Questions about Homewood

What does Homewood mean?
Homewood means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Homewood?
Homewood is a proper noun.

Words near Homewood in the dictionary

  1. homewardly
  2. homewards
  3. homeware
  4. homewares
  5. homewear
  6. Homewood
  7. Homewood Canyon
  8. Homewoods
  9. homework
  10. homework club
  11. homework clubs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Homewood (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Homewood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/homewood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.