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Webster 1913 Edition


Homeling

Home′ling

,
Noun.
A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native;
as, a word which is a
homeling
.
Trench.

Definition 2024


homeling

homeling

English

Noun

homeling (plural homelings)

  1. (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
    • Trench:
      [] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.

References

  • homeling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913