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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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.
Use homeling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Homeling means (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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.
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