homegoing

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9

Definition of homegoing

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A voyage or journey home.
    “On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath - which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all.”
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noun

  1. A voyage or journey home.
    “On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath - which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all.”
  2. An African-American Christian funeral rite marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven.

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Etymology

From home + going.

Hooks

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