BIRTHPLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birthplace mean? 

• BIRTHPLACE (noun)
  The noun BIRTHPLACE has 2 senses:

1. the place where someone was born

2. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

  Familiarity information: BIRTHPLACE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRTHPLACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The place where someone was born

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

birthplace; place of birth

Hypernyms ("birthplace" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

birthplace; cradle; place of origin; provenance; provenience

Context example:

the birthplace of civilization

Hypernyms ("birthplace" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

 Context examples 

This energy heats up the surrounding dust and gas, while their stellar winds dramatically erode and sculpt their birthplace.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)