birthstead

noun

birthstead

noun

Etymology From Middle English birth-sted, equivalent to birth + stead (“place, location”).

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Archaic, Poetic The place of one's birth, birthplace.

  • For the sun is truly the birthstead of the whole earth.1985, Patricia Dreier, A Pocketful of Joys, page 32:

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