homegoing

English

Etymology

home + going

Noun

homegoing (plural homegoings)

  1. A voyage home.
    • Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
      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 []

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