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Definition of Homeplace
1. Noun. (American English) The part of a piece of land on which a home is built ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homeplace
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homeplace
Literary usage of Homeplace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rediscovering America: Exploring the Small Towns of Virginia & Maryland by William J. Burnham, Mary K. Burnham (2002)
"The homeplace restaurant (« 540-384- 7252) in Catawba seems worlds away from
anywhere. At one table sit three high school couples, gowned girls on one side, ..."
2. Lineage and Biographies of the Norris Family in America from 1640 to 1892 by Leonard Allison Morrison (1892)
"8, 1786, and on March 7, 1787, he sold "to son, Joseph Norris, Jr., the homeplace
where I now live," being 60 acres on Joseph ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1897)
"To my son Sir John Banks, Baronet, all my lands in the Island of Sheppey called
homeplace (and other lands) and the Rectory or parsonage of Northfleet, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Under the will the old Edens homeplace was devised to John C. Crawford, a stranger
in blood, and this is urged as evidence of an unnatural mind. ..."
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