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birthplace

US/ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/
nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,055 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: birthplaces

A birthplace is the place where somebody was born. Visit his birthplace.

It is used figuratively too, so a city can be the birthplace of an idea. A birthplace is now usually a hospital rather than a house, which has quietly changed what the word records.

Tomisti · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of birthplace

  1. 1nounbirthplaceThe place where somebody was born.B2

    “His birthplace is now a car park with a plaque on the wall.”

birthplace is a place.

Where it comes from

From birth + place.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

birthplace in the wild

  • The Ramayana states that the location of Rama's birthplace is on the banks of the Sarayu river in a city called "Ayodhya".

    Ram Janmabhoomi

  • The place of birth (POB) or birthplace is the place where a person was born.

    Place of birth

  • The location of the maternity ward or other physical birthplace is considered unimportant.

    Place of birth

  • The site preserves the birthplace of American poet Walt Whitman.

    Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site

  • Mozart's birthplace (German: Mozarts Geburtshaus or Hagenauerhaus) is a house museum in Austria at No. 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, Austria.

    Mozart's birthplace

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.