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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