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birthplace

noun
/ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/US

Etymology

From birth + place.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. formed as birthplace — “birth + place”

Definitions

  1. The location where a person was born.

    • Portsmouth was Charles Dickens’ birthplace.
    • At Scotswood, the main line crosses to the south bank of the Tyne, but an alternative route, on the north side of the river, used by a few trains, rejoins the Carlisle line beyond North Wylam, the birthplace of George Stephenson.

  2. The location where something was created or devised.

    • Coney Island was the birthplace of the hot dog.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at birthplace. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at birthplace. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at birthplace

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA