[f. BIRTH1 + PLACE.] The place where a person (or fig. a thing) is born.
1607. Shaks., Cor., IV. iv. 23. My Birth-place hate I, and my loues vpon This Enemie Towne.
1789. Burns, Farew. Highlands, i. The birth-place of valour, the country of worth.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., III. 90. How gracefully that slender shrub looks forth From its fantastic birthplace!
1849. W. Irving, Goldsmith, 19. In this house Goldsmith was born, and it was a birthplace worthy of a poet.
