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单词 home-goer
释义

home-goern.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmˌɡəʊə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌɡoʊər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home adv., goer n.
Etymology: < home adv. + goer n. Compare earlier homegoing n., home-going adj.
A person who is on his or her way home; a person who returns to his or her home or home country.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > going home > one who or that which
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1842 Boston Misc. June 275/1 The quick, smart, footfall of some late home-goer.
1853 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 31 Oct. A great many [Chinese] are still pouring into the country but these bear a small proportion to the home goers.
1910 Daily Chron. 21 Jan. 6/6 The newsboy..handing them out to the sleepy home-goers.
1978 D. Francis in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 May (Weekend Mag.) 8/2 Another later homegoer, leaving the hotel, took him compassionately by the elbow and led him to a taxi.
2007 A. Aciman Call me by your Name iii. 170 I backed out through the incoming press of infuriated home-goers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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