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homecomer

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home⋅com⋅ing

  [hohm-kuhm-ing]
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–noun
1. a return to one's home; arrival at home.
2. an annual event held by a college, university, or high school for visiting alumni.
Origin:
1325–75; 1930–35 for def. 2; ME homcomyng; r. ME hamcume, OE hāmcyme, equiv. to hām home + cyme arrival; see come, -ing 1

Related forms:
homecomer, noun
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Word Origin & History

homecoming 
c.1385 in literal sense of "a coming home;" 1935 in U.S. high school sense. Used earlier in Britain in ref. to the annual return of native to the Isle of Man.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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