homecoming

Meaning

Noun

• The act or event of returning home.
• In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.

Origin

• From Middle English hom-comyng, home komyng, home-cumyng, home-commynge, equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come, homkome, hame-come, ham-cume, from Old English hāmcyme.