homecoming

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

returning home

return

comeback

return to one’s home

Translations

Heimkehr

retour au foyer

regreso

retour

Heimkunft

regresso

retorn

thuiskomst

عوْدة

Rückkehr in die Heimat

عودة

νόστος

γυρισμός στο σπίτι

أوب

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhoʊmˌkʌmɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: 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”).