Meaning of homegrown | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.
   not-comparable
2. Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced.
   broadly, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables.”

“The young politician is a homegrown talent we are all proud of here.”

“One had never stepped in a rowing boat until 2008, the other will return to serve in the Royal Artillery in September. But Glover and Stanning will now go down in the record books as the first homegrown gold medallists of the London 2012 Olympics.”

“As historian Paul Hanebrink writes, the far-right in Europe could not accept that the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution represented genuine homegrown support for leftist politics, so communism had to be explained as part of "a Jewish plot to overthrow civilization and impose foreign rule on the nations of Europe."”

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