birthplace

Noun

Meaning

The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cradle provenance provenience place of birth place of origin genesis fatherland radix rookery fountainhead country family home source beginning

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Antonyms

izzard death end epilogue discontinuance oversea

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Hypernyms

place beginning source origin root spot

Phrases with the word

birthplace of jazz the birthplace of islam birthplace of his birthplace

Examples

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. Brené Brown

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. François de La Rochefoucauld

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools. Marguerite Yourcenar

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. King Hussein

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace. Frédéric Chopin

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India. Anurag Kashyap

Close letter words and terms

birthname birthnight birthparent birthplace of birthplace of jazz birthquake