homeling en · NOUN
Etymology
From home + -ling.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
[…] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.
1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| homelings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |