Definition of homegrown
1 : grown or produced at home or in a particular local area homegrown vegetables homegrown films
2 : native to or characteristic of a particular area the festival will feature homegrown artists
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Examples of homegrown in a Sentence
The family sells their homegrown vegetables at the local market.
The music festival will feature some homegrown talent this year.
Recent Examples of homegrown from the Web
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The perpetrators of these terrorist attacks in the West are largely second-generation homegrown terrorists, not recent immigrants or refugees.
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Incentives have been added to encourage more of a homegrown industry and to encourage productions to film outside the New Orleans area.
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Before the hate crime targeting LeBron James occurred, two Portland men sacrificed their lives coming to the defense of two women being subjected to ethnic slurs from a homegrown domestic terrorist.
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And now, apparently, so have Iran’s ambitions for homegrown human spaceflight.
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The development of Butler, 26, is essential since the Cubs have waited patiently to draft and fully develop a homegrown starter since President Theo Epstein took over before the 2012 season.
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Ford, a homegrown defender who attended a nearby high school and played for the University of Denver, was playing in just his fifth game.
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Developing homegrown hitmakers has paid off for WMG, with acts like Brazil's Anitta, Italy's Benji & Fede and China's Li Ronghao.
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This 59-year-old man who keeps misplacing his reading glasses and whose wife has taken to feeding him homegrown wheatgrass juice will take a 60-second ride at the front of a jet capable of delivering 48,000 horsepower –
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HOMEGROWN Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of homegrown for English Language Learners
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: grown or made at home or in your local area
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: raised in or coming from your local area
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