Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homegoing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: home-go-ing
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A voyage or journey home.

noun

An African-American Christian funeral rite marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From home + going.

Inflected Forms

homegoings (plural)

Questions

What does homegoing mean?: A voyage or journey home.
Where does homegoing come from?: From home + going.

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