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# birthplace

«birthplace» in Mova's school dictionary: **The place, town or house where a person was born** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a birthplace, birthplaces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The place, town or house where a person was born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#m1)

2) The place where something started or was first made or done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and English lessons we visit the birthplaces of famous people, like Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon. In everyday forms you may be asked your «place of birth». Phrase: the birthplace of football, of jazz, of democracy.

### examples

- Stratford-upon-Avon is Shakespeare's birthplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x1)
- My dad's birthplace is a small village in Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x2)
- Ancient Greece is called the birthplace of democracy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x3)
- New Orleans is said to be the birthplace of jazz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x4)
- We visited the house that was Lincoln's birthplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x5)
- Write your name and birthplace on the form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x6)
- This divinity was chiefly worshipped at Lampsacus, his birthplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/#x7)

### note

One word. Countable: birthplaces. On forms, «place of birth» is more common.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «birthplace» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/birthplace/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.