Home › Words › H › homelinghomelinghomeling means A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.EtymologyFrom home + -ling.nounA native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.e.g.“[…] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.” — 1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.homeborn 69% match — Born in a given place, native, indigenous. vs homeling →homeland 66% match — The country that one regards as home. vs homeling →homeworlder 62% match — An inhabitant of the homeworld. vs homeling →hometowner 61% match — One who lives in their hometown. vs homeling →landfolk 61% match — The inhabitants of a region, especially if native. vs homeling →inlandish 59% match — Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native. vs homeling →homecomer 59% match — One who returns home from another place. vs homeling →homelike 59% match — Having the comfortable characteristics of a home. vs homeling →