homecoming

Significat (Anglès)

1. The act or event of returning home.
2. (Canada, US, also, attributive) In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
3. (Canada, US, abbreviation, also, alt-of, attributive, ellipsis) In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.

Conceptes

retorn

tornada

Sinònims

returning home

return

comeback

return to one’s home

Traduccions

Heimkehr

retour au foyer

Heimkunft

retour

regreso

thuiskomst

regresso

Rückkehr in die Heimat

νόστος

γυρισμός στο σπίτι

epistrofí

palinnóstisi

rentrée

retour chez soi

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈhoʊmˌkʌmɪŋ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: hom-comyng

In summary

From Middle English hom-comyng, home komyng, home-cumyng, home-commynge, equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come, homkome, hame-come, ham-cume, from Old English hāmcyme (“homecoming; return”).