Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The place where someone is born or where something originates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The place of one's birth; the town, city, or country where a person is born; more generally, place of origin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
location where aperson wasborn . - noun by extension The location where something was created or devised.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the place where someone was born
- noun where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
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Examples
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He adores the city, which he calls the birthplace of baseball.
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Considering her birthplace is only 60 miles from Canada?
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The Knickerbocker often is described as the birthplace of the martini, though it isn't the only venue to claim that distinction.
Knickerbocker Hotel Knocks Again Kris Hudson 2012
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Control of Kandahar, the Taliban movement's birthplace, is seen as key to reversing Taliban momentum in the war.
Taliban Steps Up Attacks In Kandahar With Second Day Of Blasts AP 2010
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Control of Kandahar, the Taliban movement's birthplace, is seen as key to reversing Taliban momentum in the war.
Taliban Steps Up Attacks In Kandahar With Second Day Of Blasts AP 2010
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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 2008
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(However, my grandfather's birthplace is not in Ukraine but in Belarus.)
February 13th, 2007 2007
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Leonardo's birthplace is a small town surrounded by olive groves and rolling hills not very far from Florence.
TBTAM Does Italy, Part 6 - Vinci and Lucca aka TBTAM 2007
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Its birthplace is southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, and northern Tabasco.
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[His birthplace is now in Belarus; it's in the Ukraine, but not in Ukraine.]
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