HOMECOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homecoming mean? 

• HOMECOMING (noun)
  The noun HOMECOMING has 2 senses:

1. an annual school or university reunion for graduates

2. a coming to or returning home

  Familiarity information: HOMECOMING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMECOMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An annual school or university reunion for graduates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("homecoming" is a kind of...):

reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A coming to or returning home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

homecoming; return

Context example:

on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party

Hypernyms ("homecoming" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homecoming"):

repatriation (the act of returning to the country of origin)

 Context examples 

We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)