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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or event of returning to home. 2 (context US English) In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a American football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
WordNet
n. an annual school or university reunion for graduates
a coming to or returning home; "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party" [syn: return]
Wikipedia
Homecoming is a tradition at many North American schools.
Homecoming may also refer to:
Homecoming is a 1972 album by America. Acoustic guitar-based, with a more pronounced electric guitar and keyboard section than their first album, their second effort helped continue the band's success, and includes one of their best known hits, " Ventura Highway".
Homecoming peaked at #9 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the RIAA. It produced three hit singles: " Ventura Highway" which peaked at #8 on the Billboard singles chart and #3 on the adult contemporary chart; "Don't Cross the River" which hit #35 on Billboard and #23 on the AC chart; and "Only in Your Heart" peaked at #62 on Billboard's Pop singles chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks, including "To Each His Own", "California Revisited", and "Cornwall Blank".
For this album and the next six throughout the next five years, the group traditionally chose titles beginning with the letter "H" (The self-titled debut album became unofficially included in this distinction when fans started referring to it as the "Horse With No Name" album when that track was added to later pressings)
Homecoming is an album by Gateway, a trio composed of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. It was recorded in 1994 and released on the ECM label in 1995 and is the trio's first album since Gateway 2 in 1978. The Allmusic review by Greg Turner states "The Gateway Trio is a cooperative in the greatest sense of the word... Even though this only the third Gateway recording and the group's first in 17 years, each group member collaborates frequently with the others. As a result there is always a great sense of interplay between Abercrombie's sometimes-mellow-sometimes-distorted guitar, Holland's huge toned bass, and DeJohnette's dancing drums... This is a fine return to recording for a great group".
Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back students of a school. It is a tradition in many universities and high schools in the United States and Canada. It usually includes activities for students, such as sports, cultural events, and a parade through the streets of the city or town. Homecoming should not be confused with prom, as they occur at different times of the year. Homecoming usually occurs in the fall, and prom usually occurs in the spring.
Homecoming is the second official live album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 2002. Recorded in Glasgow, Scotland in 2001, it may be regarded as the soundtrack to the DVD of the same name, with stage talk edited to allow the tracks to fit onto a single CD.
The CD tray insert states "The Greatest Hits Live In Glasgow".
"Homecoming" is the sixth episode of the third season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Rafael Alvarez from a story by David Simon & Rafael Alvarez and was directed by Leslie Libman. It originally aired on October 31, 2004.
"Homecoming" is the ninth episode of the first season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes.
Homecoming is Craig's Brother's first full-length album, released on May 19, 1998 through Tooth & Nail Records.
"Homecoming" is a short story by Robin Hobb, published in the 2003 Legends II anthology. Set in The Realm of the Elderlings, it is written in first person narrative as a series of diary entries by Lady Carillion Carrock, an exiled Jamaillian noble.
The story is a prequel to The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and explains the backstory of the Bingtown and Rain Wild Traders.
Category:Fantasy short stories Category:American short stories Category:2003 short stories Category:Short stories by Robin Hobb
"Homecoming" is the fifth episode of the third season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
After Scott breaks up with her, Buffy runs for homecoming queen. This puts her against Cordelia and the two fall out. Meanwhile, Willow and Xander kiss and feeling guilty help Cordelia's run for homecoming instead of Buffy. Buffy and Cordelia are tricked into a limo to reconcile but end up in a deadly game of SlayerFest '98. Old enemies have returned to kill the slayers and Cordelia is mistaken for Faith and therefore has to help Buffy fight for their lives.
"Homecoming" is the 15th episode of the first season of the ABC's serial drama television series, Lost. It was aired on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada on February 9, 2005. The episode was written by executive producer Damon Lindelof and directed by Kevin Hooks. It was seen by nineteen and a half million American viewers, and received mixed to positive reviews, where Charlie's backstory received general praise.
The episode sees the return of Claire Littleton ( Emilie de Ravin), who escaped after she was kidnapped by Ethan Rom ( William Mapother). However, her return meant that all the survivors' lives are in danger, and the team have to figure out a way to stop Ethan. Charlie Pace ( Dominic Monaghan) is featured in the episode's flashbacks.
Homecoming is an American drama television film.
On April 14, 1996, the TV film Homecoming was released and aired on the American cable channel, Showtime. The screenplay was written by Christopher Carlson and was based on Cynthia Voigt's novel, Homecoming. The movie follows the story of four children who were abandoned by their mother and left to fend for themselves. Homecoming was directed by Mark Jean, produced by Jack Baran, and the executive producer was Shirô Sasaki. This drama is rated PG and has a running time of 105 minutes.
Homecoming did not win any awards, despite being nominated for a total of five. Anne Bancroft was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries by the Screen Actors Guild. Christopher Carlson and Mark Jean were nominated for Adapted Long Form by the Writers Guild of America, USA. The movie gathered three Young Artist Awards nominations: Best Family TV Movie or Mini-Series - Cable, Best Performance in a TV Movie/Home Video - Young Ensemble, and Kimberlee Peterson was nominated for Best Performance in a TV Movie/Mini-Series - Young Actress.
__NOTOC__ "Homecoming" is a 1968 poem by Bruce Dawe. Written as an elegy for anonymous soldiers, "Homecoming" is an anti-war poem protesting Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War during the 1960s. Dennis Haskell, Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at University of Western Australia, has called it "the most highly regarded poem about Vietnam written by any Australian", and Peter Pierce, the editor of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature has described it as "one of the finest threnodies in the war literature of Vietnam".
The anti-war sentiment in "Homecoming" is more direct than in Dawe's other well-known war poem, " Weapons Training", written two years later. The ironic use of the word homecoming, with its usual connotations of celebration, as the title becomes apparent on reading the poem, in which the acts of collecting and processing the bodies of the war dead and shipping them home are described in a highly repetitive fashion, with a rhythm that evokes the beat of a funeral drum. Although the poem was written in 1968, the year Dawe left the Royal Australian Air Force, it had its origins, according to Dawe's biographer Peter Kuch, in Dawe's earlier "political awakening in Melbourne in the mid-1950s" and in particular his personal reaction to the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Before joining the RAAF, Dawe had worked as a postman. John Kinsella has proposed that Dawe's experiences during that time are echoed in the final lines of "Homecoming":
"Homecoming" is included in the 1971 collection of Dawe's poetry Condolences of the Season and in his Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954–1992. It also appears in several anthologies of Australian literature, including Two Centuries of Australian Poetry ( Oxford University Press, 1988) and The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature ( Macmillan, 1990).
Homecoming is a young adult novel by American children's author Cynthia Voigt. It is the first of seven novels in the Tillerman Cycle. It was adapted into a for-TV film.
Homecoming (Original title: Heimkehr) is a 1928 German silent war film directed by Joe May.
“Homecoming” is the pilot episode of the ABC television series Miss Guided. It was the series premiere of the show, and was written by Caroline Williams and directed by Todd Holland It aired March 18, 2008.
"Homecoming" is a song by American hip hop artist Kanye West featuring guest vocals from Chris Martin, lead singer of the British alternative rock band Coldplay, whom he met during an impromptu jam session at Abbey Road Studios in 2006. It was released as the final single from his third studio album Graduation (2007). It was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download and was due to be released as a physical single on February 4, 2008. However, the physical single was cancelled due to downloads starting to decline before the release. It was, however, released on vinyl single on 18 February. "Homecoming" reached Number 9 in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2008, (for the week ending date January 26, 2008), on download sales alone.
Homecoming is a 2009 American independent thriller film, directed by Morgan J. Freeman and written by Katie L. Fetting, Jake Goldberger and Frank Hannah. The film follows a student couple, Mike ( Matt Long) and Elizabeth ( Jessica Stroup), on their homecoming. Elizabeth is taken home by Mike's ex-girlfriend Shelby ( Mischa Barton) after a road accident. Shelby is soon revealed to be fixated on Mike and subsequently treats Elizabeth in a cruel and deranged manner.
Homecoming is a 1948 romantic drama starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner. It was the third of their four films together, and like two of the others, was about a couple caught up in World War II.
"Homecoming" is the sixth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on December 2, 2005. It is loosely based on the 2002 short story "Death & Suffrage" by Dale Bailey.
"Homecoming" is a song recorded by American pop punk group Hey Monday for their debut studio album, Hold On Tight (2008). A snippet of the song was included on Fall Out Boy's mixtape Welcome to the New Administration in August 2008. It was first released in the United States on October 7, 2008 as the band's debut single, before being released internationally throughout early 2009. "Homecoming" only charted outside the US, namely in Japan and Australia.
Homecoming is an Off-Broadway one-person show by Lauren Weedman that premiered at Westside Theatre on September 10, 2001. Following the September 11 attacks, Weedman announced that the show would be postponed till January 21, 2002, with the venue changed to the Arclight Theatre.
Homecoming is a 1984 Hong Kong film directed by Yim Ho. It won the Best Film Award at the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards. The film was also selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Homecoming is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera recorded at the Southeastern Louisiana University in 1979 but not released until 1999 on the Milestone label.
"Homecoming" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Falling Skies, and the 16th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on TNT in the United States on July 15, 2012. It was written by Brian Oh and directed by Greg Beeman.
Homecoming is the second EP by Sammy Adams. The EP was released on November 19 2013, by RCA Records.
Homecoming is an album by Art Farmer recorded in the summer of 1971 and originally released on the Mainstream label.
"Homecoming" is the ninth episode of the third season of The CW television series, The Vampire Diaries and the 53rd episode of the series overall. It originally aired on November 10, 2011. The episode was written by Evan Bleiweiss and directed by Joshua Butler.
"Homecoming" is the second episode of the sixth season of the American musical television series Glee, and the 110th overall. The episode was written by series co-creator Ryan Murphy, directed by executive producer Bradley Buecker, and first aired on January 9, 2015 on Fox in the United States along with the previous episode, " Loser Like Me", as a special two-hour premiere.
The episode takes place in the days surrounding the homecoming at McKinley High, as Rachel Berry ( Lea Michele) attempts to revive New Directions at McKinley with the help of Kurt Hummel ( Chris Colfer), but Principal Sue Sylvester ( Jane Lynch) continues to stand in her way. Rachel decides to bring back former New Directions members in an attempt to recruit new talent. Meanwhile, the first-ever female to attend Dalton Academy attempts to break into the Warblers.
Usage examples of "homecoming".
IN THE HISTORY of the Adams family there was probably no more joyous homecoming than took place in the heat of midmorning on August 18, 1817, when John Quincy, Louisa Catherine, and their three sons came over the hill from Milton in a coach-and-four trailing a cloud of dust.
Lou Calabrese, not Candy Sparks, cheerleading captain and star of every musical Bay Haven Central put on, or Amber Castiglione, homecoming queen and possessor of a professionally done portfolio of modeling headshots.
Not the coming of the grays, not the byrus or the weasels, but four boys who had been hoping to see a picture of the Homecoming Queen with her skirt pulled up, no more than that.
During her freshman and sophomore years at Monrovia High School, Leslie was one of the homecoming princesses.
Caroline Carmichael, before the presidential letter of appreciation and the Bronze Intelligence Star-there was a different sort of homecoming, in a freight hangar at Washington Dulles, and Scottie Sorensen was the only person there.
In the past few weeks I had often imagined my homecoming to Witchwood Hall, but I had never dreamed that it might prove so startling.
I had to yet, wanted to enjoy them a bit, and it was easy, so easy, like this was just another excited homecoming.
There will be no homecoming for you from the battle, and Andromache will never take the glorious armor of Achilles from your hands.
Marie Brasher is the local Homecoming Queen and seems perfectly normal.
May I assume Cheryl Anne was upset because Thud failed to win the game single-handedly and ensure a Homecoming celebration fraught with significance and glistening memories?
The kids were holding a pair of thin foam mattresses, rolled up as if they were too precious to stretch them out on the dewy ground, and they were whispering and giggling, with the park lamps lighting up tattoos from homecoming enactments on the top of their heads.
Their thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a recognition, a remembering, a return and a homecoming to a remote, primordial, an inclusive houschold of the soul, out of which those concepts grew originall: philosophizing is to this extent a kind of atavism of the highest order.
In a fit of guilt-induced fear, he removed two candles from the Shabbat candle box and lowered the level in the Manischewitz bottle in preparation for Sauls homecoming.
The eagerness, the bittersweet sense of homecoming, that flickered around his calm logic were Christian Brannock's.
Whither, retaining her now wonted pilgrim's weeds, she hied her, and finding that the ladies and gentlemen were all gathered in the Count's palace and on the point of going to table, she tarried not to change her dress, but went up into the hall, bearing her little ones in her arms, and threading her way through the throng to the place where she saw the Count stand, she threw herself at his feet, and sobbing, said to him:—"My lord, thy hapless bride am I, who to ensure thy homecoming and abidance in peace have long time been a wanderer, and now demand of thee observance of the condition whereof word was brought me by the two knights whom I sent to thee.