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Definition of Birthplace
1. Noun. The place where someone was born.
2. Noun. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. "The birthplace of civilization"
Generic synonyms: Beginning, Origin, Root, Rootage, Source
Definition of Birthplace
1. n. The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
Definition of Birthplace
1. Noun. The location where a person was born. ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) The location where something was created or devised. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Birthplace
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birthplace
Literary usage of Birthplace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... birthplace of Amos, according to St. Jerome (little prob.). ... birthplace of
the prophet Nahum. Some deem it to be El-Kauze, in Nephtali; others, ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND MONTHLY RECORD OF GEOGRAPHY.
On the Geography of the birthplace and Cradle of the Mahratta Empire. ..."
3. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"He is so greatly harassed ly restlessness and sorrow that he leaves his birthplace,
and returns to Carthage. O MADNESS, which knowest not how to love men, ..."
4. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"birthplace of Offenders. $ 112. birthplace of Parents. § 113. Previous Institutional
Life. $ 114. Religion. Education. § 115. Alcoholism of Parents. $ 116. ..."
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