The Collaborative International Dictionary
homecoming \home"com`ing\, home-coming \home"-com`ing\, n.
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A return home. [WordNet sense 2]
Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge.
--Chaucer. A social event, usually held annually at colleges and universities, to welcome visiting alumni; a type of school reunion for graduates. [WordNet sense 1]
Wikipedia
"Home-Coming" (German: "Heimkehr") is a short story by Franz Kafka. A young man returns home and finds that his father does not express any feelings towards him. He recognizes the familiar terrain, such as his family's farm, but feels like a stranger. He stands at the door waiting, and feels a dread as it becomes apparent that he will always be on the outskirts both of his family and of his community.
It has been suggested that the story is essentially the tale of the Prodigal Son inverted.
Usage examples of "home-coming".
Haydn busied himself on a couple of compositions intended to celebrate his home-coming.
Not infrequently, while the editorial page is mourning the prevalence of homicide, the front columns are bristling with sensational accounts of the home-coming of the injured husband, the heartbreaking confession of the weak and erring wife, and the sneering nonchalance of the seducer, until a public sentiment is created which, if it outwardly deprecates the invocation of the unwritten law, secretly avows that it would have done the same thing in the prisoner's place.
But he had danced his minuets and gavottes with my Lady Dunstanwolde as well as with other fair ones, and the country gentry had looked on and applauded him in their talk, telling each other of his fortunes, and of how he had had a wound at Blenheim, distinguished himself elsewhere, and set the world wondering because after his home-coming he took no Duchess instead of choosing one, as all expected.
The home-coming of the Rovers was the occasion of a regular celebration at Valley Brook farm.