homestate

English

Noun

homestate (plural homestates)

1. Alternative form of home state
   • 1994, Marshall J. Cook, Hometown Wisconsin:

     We were leaving behind our homestate, our friends, Ellen's family in Los Angeles and mine in Paradise Pines, where they had moved after Dad retired and forsook forever that dreadful daily commute on the Pasadena Freeway.

   • 1973, Floyd M. Clay, Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol:

     The business was ailing, however, because of the stigma of having been made illegal in its own homestate, so the view from Orange, Texas, was not encouraging.