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单词 homecomer
释义

homecomern.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmˌkʌmə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌkəmər/
Forms: see home adv. and comer n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home adv., comer n.
Etymology: < home adv. + comer n. Compare earlier homecome n., homecoming n.
A person who returns to his or her home, family, or native land.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > going home > one who or that which
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1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. C1 The father reioyseth the sonne to be a safe home commer vnto hym.
1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 353 My blessing..be on the home-comer.
1845 Visitor 45/1 A solitary feeble light betrays the chamber of sickness, or the unseasonable hours of some late home-comer.
1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen vi. 119 There was a great pile of logs burning in the hall, giving the home-comers cheery welcome.
1930 Peel City Guardian 21 June 6/1 The White Star liner, ‘Doric’, will anchor in Douglas Bay..with 279 ‘homecomers’ on board.
1947 Chicago Tribune 1 Nov. 19/5 Illinois' embattled players..adjourned to the Champaign Country club..to escape a horde of homecomers who are flooding this university community.
2005 D. Berghahn Hollywood behind Wall ii. 66 A ruined city, inhabited by crippled and desolate POWs, homecomers without a home to go to.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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