homeling
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]homeling (plural homelings)
- (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
- 1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries:
- […] 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
[edit]- “homeling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.