Homegoing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Homegoing is a noun meaning A voyage or journey home.
Meaning
A voyage or journey home.
More Meanings
- 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.
Word Forms
- homegoings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include homecoming, voyaging, going, repatriation, farewell, return.
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