birthplace

/ˌbʌrθˈpleɪs/

/ˈbʌθpleɪs/

Other forms: birthplaces

The city or country where someone is born is their birthplace. If you move to Atlanta, Georgia, you can tell your friends you live in the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr.

You'll often find the word birthplace describing the origin of a famous person, whether you're visiting the birthplace of Elvis Presley in Mississippi or reading about Tuskegee, Alabama, the birthplace of Rosa Parks. Birthplace also shows up on official documents like passport applications, which require you to prove your birthplace by submitting a birth certificate. The Middle English version of this word was birthstede, from stede, or "place."

Definitions of birthplace

1. noun

   the place where someone was born
   synonyms: place of birth

   type of:

   place, spot, topographic point

   a point located with respect to surface features of some region
2. noun

   where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
   “the birthplace of civilization”

   synonyms: cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience

   type of:

   beginning, origin, root, rootage, source

   the place where something begins, where it springs into being