Homegoing

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"In some cultures, a funeral is a time of rejoicing for the "homegoing.""

Etymology

From home + going.

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