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birthplace

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birth·place  (bûrthpls)
n.
The place where someone is born or where something originates.

birthplace
Noun
the place where someone was born or where something originated
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.birthplace - the place where someone was born
place, spot, topographic point - a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
2.birthplace - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization"
origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
Translations
birthplace [ˈbəːθpleɪs] nlugar m de nacimiento
birthplace [ˈbəːθpleɪs] birth nlieu m de naissance
birthplace [ˈbəːθpleɪs] nGeburtsort m;
(house) → Geburtshaus nt (fig); Entstehungsort m
birthplace [ˈbəːθpleɪs] nluogo di nascita


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I would have liked to visit the birthplace of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memorandum of the site of the house has been kept.
Some years ago, when you were beginning to tell me your real name and birthplace, you may remember I stopped you, and preferred to remain ignorant of all.
But the sweetest incident of Anne's sojourn in Bolingbroke was the visit to her birthplace -- the little shabby yellow house in an out-of-the-way street she had so often dreamed about.
 
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