homeling

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noun

A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.

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Meanings

nounhomeling (plural homelings)

plural homelings

  1. obsoleteA native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.

    […] 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.

    1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries

    Synonyms: resident

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.

Similar
resident
Also see
native

Origin

From home + -ling.

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Cite this entry
APA

homeling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeling

MLA

“homeling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homeling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeling.

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