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Homer

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhəʊmə//
  • United States//ˈhoʊməɹ//

An ancient Greek epic poet of the 8th century BCE, who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An ancient Greek epic poet of the 8th century BCE, who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

  2. 2

    A male given name from Ancient Greek.

    What’s this? “Extremely High Voltage”. Well, I don’t need safety gloves because I’m Homer Simp-*gets zapped to death*

  3. 3

    A town, the county seat of Banks County, Georgia, United States.

  4. 4

    A town, the parish seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States.

  5. 5

    A number of townships in the United States, listed under Homer Township.

Etymology

From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Middle English.

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], an occupational name for a helmet maker, or a variant of Holme.

Forms

plural
Homers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).