Homebred

Word HOMEBRED
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈhoʊmˌbɹɛd/

Definitions and meanings of "Homebred"

What do we mean by homebred?

Raised, bred, or reared at home; domestic. adjective

Homeborn, raised in the home adjective

A person or animal raised at home.

An inexperienced or unsophisticated person; a rustic.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Homebred

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The word "homebred" in example sentences

The WinStar Farm homebred is extremely consistent, with four victories and two second-place finishes in six career starts for earnings of $825,300. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Holmes, who got permission from owner Bob Feld of Bongo Racing Stable to name homebred Denise's Gift, hopes the filly's title will encourage others to commit to organ donation after hearing Darvall's story. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Next-gen iPhone to feature "homebred" Apple silicon ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kant picks a host of homebred entrepreneurs, such as the C.G.H. Earth group which runs the Coconut Lagoon at Kumarakam, tour operators such as E.M. Najeeb of Air Travel Enterprises, the Abad group, and Travancore Heritage in his book Branding India: An Incredible Story as those who saw the future and rose up to it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The homebred son of Danzig won his debut by 6 3 ⁄ 4 lengths at Saratoga in August and the Summer Stakes at Woodbine on Sept. 16 in his only other start. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The homebred son of Street Cry finished second to Hard Spun in the Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park on Sept. 29 as a final tune-up for the Classic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He hinted this resemblance to the Landamman, who was naturally gratified with the compliment to his country, but presently replied, — “May Heaven continue among us the homebred virtues of the Romans, and preserve us from their lust of conquest and love of foreign luxuries!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then shall the hardest difficulties smooth themselves out before you, envy shall sink to hell, and craft and malice shall be confounded, whether it be homebred mischief or outlandish cunning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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Society has acquired a more enlightened and elegant tone; but it has lost many of its strong local peculiarities, its homebred feelings, its honest fireside delights. ❋ Unknown (2002)

They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavor of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps, with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more homebred, social, and joyous than at present. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Hard as we worked though, tired as we got, neither one of us doubted or doubts today that Will and Elizabeth—children far less wary than we, with homebred fears and yawning needs all dogging their heels—bore the greater load. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)

My love was unspent, my dreams of it were more innocent than a homebred boy's. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

Seeing Telemachus, who was a homebred youth, still hanging back, in dread of that august presence, Mentor renewed his friendly remonstrances, "What, still tongue-tied?" he said, taking him by the arm, and leading him forward. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I accounted for it partly by their nerveless, unstrung state of body, incapable of the quick thrills of delight and fear which play upon the lively harp-strings of a healthy child's nature, and partly by their woful lack of acquaintance with a private home, and their being therefore destitute of the sweet homebred shyness, which is like the sanctity of heaven about a mother-petted child. ❋ Various (N/A)

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