homecoming
Meanings
Plural: homecomings
Noun
- an annual school or university reunion for graduates
- a coming to or returning home
- The act or event of returning home.
- In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
- In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
- Ellipsis of harvest homecoming, a traditional (street) party and/or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms. It traditionally marks the start of harvest break, where students go home in autumn to harvest the crops on the family farms.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hom-comyng, home komyng, home-cumyng, home-commynge, equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come, homkome, hame-come, ham-cume, from Old English hāmcyme (“homecoming; return”).
Scrabble Score: 20
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Words With Friends Score: 24
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