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- noun US The part of a piece of
land on which ahome is built
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Examples
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He had a small casita built for his mother several years ago just behind the family "homeplace" so to speak.
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She currently just gets calls at her sister's house next door, which is Grandma Bello's "homeplace" (she passed away 10 or more yrs ago).
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Hated to read about your loss of statue that stood over your dear parent's graves for so many years, and then resided at your residence, the old "homeplace" of your parents.
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Chicago is big-city big and diverse; small-town in feel, yet important on the American and world stages; strife-ridden, but eternally optimistic in a peculiarly American way; and the American homeplace among our big cities in a way that New York and Los Angeles aren't.
Rebecca Sive: Mayor Daley Is Right: Being Mayor of Chicago Is the Best Job in the World Rebecca Sive 2010
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Chicago is big-city big and diverse; small-town in feel, yet important on the American and world stages; strife-ridden, but eternally optimistic in a peculiarly American way; and the American homeplace among our big cities in a way that New York and Los Angeles aren't.
Rebecca Sive: Mayor Daley Is Right: Being Mayor of Chicago Is the Best Job in the World Rebecca Sive 2010
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Chicago is big-city big and diverse; small-town in feel, yet important on the American and world stages; strife-ridden, but eternally optimistic in a peculiarly American way; and the American homeplace among our big cities in a way that New York and Los Angeles aren't.
Rebecca Sive: Mayor Daley Is Right: Being Mayor of Chicago Is the Best Job in the World Rebecca Sive 2010
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A young couple faced with the demise of their homeplace -- their future, and their past -- emerged at center stage of the great tragedy of strip-mining, mountaintop removal and reckless coal mining disasters still playing out across the coalfields in 24 states in our country today.
Jeff Biggers: Take Off Broadway, Off Coal: Love, in the Time of Blasting 2010
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How do you celebrate Earth Day, when your homeland or homeplace has been stripmined into oblivion?
Reclaiming Earth Day: Guerilla Reclamation Actions in the Coalfields 2010
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After harassing and intimidating our last remaining cousin on Oval Hill, a coal mining company had bought most of the hollow where my extended family had lived for two centuries and blasted away the old homeplace.
Reclaiming Earth Day: Guerilla Reclamation Actions in the Coalfields 2010
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Ike came back here after living out of state, back to the homeplace of Zion Hill.
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