homegrown

See also: home-grown

English

Alternative forms

• home-grown

Etymology

From home +‎ grown.

Adjective

homegrown (not comparable)

1. (of produce) Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous. [from 1640s]

   Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables.

2. (by extension) Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced. [from 1730s]

   The design, though homegrown, was robust and well planned.

   • 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal‎^[1], Guardian Unlimited:

     One had never stepped in a rowing boat until 2008, the other will return to serve in the Royal Artillery in September. But Glover and Stanning will now go down in the record books as the first homegrown gold medallists of the London 2012 Olympics.

   • 2020 February 5, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward‎^[2]:

     As historian Paul Hanebrink writes, the far-right in Europe could not accept that the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution represented genuine homegrown support for leftist politics, so communism had to be explained as part of "a Jewish plot to overthrow civilization and impose foreign rule on the nations of Europe."

Translations

Grown at home

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自家种植的

• Estonian: omakasvatatud, kodumaine
• French: fait maison (fr)
• German: selbstgezogen
• Italian: nostrano (it), fatto in casa (it)
• Russian: дома́шний (ru) (domášnij)
• Spanish: casero (es), de cosecha propia
• Swedish: hemodlad

Created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner; done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization, or professional

• Dutch: zelfgemaakt (nl), huisgemaakt (nl)
• Polish: domorosły (pl), samorodny (pl)
• Russian: доморо́щенный (ru) (domoróščennyj)
• Swedish: hemmasnickrad (sv), egentillverkad

Noun

homegrown (plural homegrowns)

1. Someone or something which originated locally.
   • 2015 July 14, Dave Zeitlin, “Will Philadelphia Union's high-school create USA's next soccer stars?”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Union head coach Jim Curtin, a lifelong Philadelphian, has made it clear that signing homegrowns will be a priority for him moving forward.

See also

• homespun

References

• Philip Babcock Gove et al., editors (1961), “homegrown”, in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged [...], volume II: H to R, Merriam-Webster Inc., →ISBN, page 1082; republished Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1993, →ISBN
• “homegrown, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.