birthplace
(ˈbɜːθpleɪs)
[f. birth n.1 + place.]
The place where a person (or fig. a thing) is born.
| 1607 Shakes. Cor. iv. iv. 23 My Birth-place hate I, and my loues vpon This Enemie Towne. 1789 Burns Farew. Highlands i, The birth-place of valour, the country of worth. 1814 Wordsw. Excurs. iii. 90 How gracefully that slender shrub looks forth From its fantastic birthplace! 1849 W. Irving Goldsm. 19 In this house Goldsmith was born, and it was a birthplace worthy of a poet. |