birthstead
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English birth-sted, equivalent to birth + stead (“place, location”).
Noun edit
birthstead (plural birthsteads)
- (archaic, poetic) The place of one's birth, birthplace.
- 1985, Patricia Dreier, A Pocketful of Joys, page 32:
- For the sun is truly the birthstead of the whole earth.