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Homecoming   /hˈoʊmkˌəmɪŋ/   Listen
Homecoming

noun
1.
An annual school or university reunion for graduates.
2.
A coming to or returning home.  Synonym: return.





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"Homecoming" Quotes from Famous Books



... singers, joining sometimes in the choruses, squealing with laughter at jests in verse not to be translated in sober English prose and finding a little moisture in their eyes after a song of sentiment which reminded them of the price which must be paid for glory by young men for whose homecoming they had waited through ...
— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs
... tell of quiet days at Grimsby; but they were not to be. Three days after Havelok's homecoming we were on the "swan's path," and heading for Denmark, with the soft south wind of high summer speeding us on the way. And I will tell how that came about, for else it may seem strange that Havelok did not see to the rights of his wife first ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler


Words linked to "Homecoming" :   reunification, return, arrival, repatriation, reunion


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