homecoming

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a coming to or returning home

   The family prepared a large meal for her homecoming.

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”).

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