Usually means: Return celebration for alumni, students.
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  1. homecoming: Merriam-Webster
  2. homecoming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homecoming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homecoming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homecoming: Vocabulary.com
  6. Homecoming, homecoming: Wordnik
  7. homecoming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. homecoming: Wiktionary
  9. homecoming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. homecoming: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. homecoming: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. homecoming: Dictionary.com
  13. homecoming: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. homecoming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. homecoming: Rhymezone
  17. homecoming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. homecoming: FreeDictionary.org
  19. homecoming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. homecoming: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. homecoming: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Homecoming (game), Homecoming (tradition), homecoming: Encyclopedia

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noun:  The act or event of returning home.
noun:  (Canada, US, also attributive) In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
noun:  Ellipsis of harvest homecoming.; A traditional (street) party and/or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms. Traditionally marking the start of harvest break, where students go home in autumn to harvest the crops on the family farms. [A traditional street party or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms]

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