homegrown

adjective

home·​grown ˈhōm-ˈgrōn 

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

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 on the Web

This data is broken down into three buckets: investment in and development of homegrown talent, appeal (the extent to which a country taps into the overseas talent pool) and readiness (the availability of skills and competencies in the talent pool), according to the report. —Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024

Zoom out: Most of the blame is being pointed at Xi, including his capricious crackdowns on homegrown tech giants and IPOs (both at home and overseas) that eviscerated business certainty. —Dan Primack, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024

Taylor Luck Feeling alone, local officials search for homegrown solutions Mohammed, the shopkeeper, has tried to help the situation. —Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024

Nobody was better qualified to sum up the first 152 games of the most Mets season of all-time — or to understand what the final 10 games mean for not only his teammates but the franchise as a whole — than Brandon Nimmo, who has replaced David Wright as the Mets’ homegrown cornerstone. —Jerry Beach, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1647, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

homegrown

adjective

home·​grown ˈhōm-ˈgrōn 

1

: grown or made at home or nearby

homegrown vegetables

2

: native to or characteristic of a particular place

homegrown artists