Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The place where someone is born or where something originates.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The place of one's birth; the town, city, or country where a person is born; more generally, place of origin.
Wiktionary
- n. The location where a person was born.
- n. by extension The location where something was created or devised.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the place where someone was born
- n. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
Examples
“He adores the city, which he calls the birthplace of baseball.”
“Control of Kandahar, the Taliban movement's birthplace, is seen as key to reversing Taliban momentum in the war.”
The Huffington Post: Taliban Steps Up Attacks In Kandahar With Second Day Of Blasts
“Considering her birthplace is only 60 miles from Canada?”
“The Knickerbocker often is described as the birthplace of the martini, though it isn't the only venue to claim that distinction.”
“While it may be true that Fairchild Semiconductor was the home of the “first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley”, the real birthplace is the garage where Bill Hewlett and David Packard launched their company in 1939.”
Buying Tomatoes at the Birthplace of Silicon Valley - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Leonardo's birthplace is a small town surrounded by olive groves and rolling hills not very far from Florence.”
“(However, my grandfather's birthplace is not in Ukraine but in Belarus.)”
“Its birthplace is southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, and northern Tabasco.”
“[His birthplace is now in Belarus; it's in the Ukraine, but not in Ukraine.]”
“In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘birthplace’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Consecutive Consonants
borscht, worthwhile, bronkhurstspruit, latchstring, hirschsprung's di..., backstroke, birthplace, birthstone, breaststroke, corkscrew, downstream, erstwhile and 26 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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Nouns first attested in Shakespeare
summit, scuffle, critic, bandit, mountaineer, savagery, bedroom, radiance, birthplace, pageantry, courtship, ode and 13 more...
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Self-concept
Regarding self-identify.
personal identity, self-referential ..., self-schema, sense of possibility, values, abilities, deservingness, timeline, personal narrative, self image, self-esteem, gender identity and 27 more...
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