单词 | home-goer |
释义 | home-goern. A person who is on his or her way home; a person who returns to his or her home or home country. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > going home > one who or that which homecomer1540 home-goer1842 1842 Boston Misc. June 275/1 The quick, smart, footfall of some late home-goer. 1853 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 31 Oct. A great many [Chinese] are still pouring into the country but these bear a small proportion to the home goers. 1910 Daily Chron. 21 Jan. 6/6 The newsboy..handing them out to the sleepy home-goers. 1978 D. Francis in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 May (Weekend Mag.) 8/2 Another later homegoer, leaving the hotel, took him compassionately by the elbow and led him to a taxi. 2007 A. Aciman Call me by your Name iii. 170 I backed out through the incoming press of infuriated home-goers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842 |
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