Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or reminiscent of a simple, wholesome, unpretentious lifestyle, especially that associated with the rural southern United States.

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  • adjective Simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.

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Examples

  • Mom said she was a really good cook, and lots of people came in now for her specialties, like barbecued ribs and what she called her down-home meat loaf.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • Mom said she was a really good cook, and lots of people came in now for her specialties, like barbecued ribs and what she called her down-home meat loaf.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • It was all what Cisco and Ezra called down-home food.

    Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004

  • It was all what Cisco and Ezra called down-home food.

    Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004

  • It was all what Cisco and Ezra called down-home food.

    Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004

  • Its short, brutal career — a mere 18 months, ending at Talladega — demonstrates how cutthroat, globalized, and technologically advanced this purportedly down-home sport has become.

    Wild Ride 2010

  • Stunningly refreshing, unaffected and informed, Your Environmental Road Trip makes a critical leap beyond all of the climate change and dirty energy catastrophe film masterpieces in circulation -- most notably, of course, Al Gore's Oscar-winning epic, An Inconvenient Truth -- by presenting climate destabilization issues through the down-home visions and ordinary efforts of unabashedly optimistic and incorrigibly determined innovators and sustainable community endeavors.

    Jeff Biggers: Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home Jeff Biggers 2012

  • Stunningly refreshing, unaffected and informed, Your Environmental Road Trip makes a critical leap beyond all of the climate change and dirty energy catastrophe film masterpieces in circulation -- most notably, of course, Al Gore's Oscar-winning epic, An Inconvenient Truth -- by presenting climate destabilization issues through the down-home visions and ordinary efforts of unabashedly optimistic and incorrigibly determined innovators and sustainable community endeavors.

    Jeff Biggers: Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home Jeff Biggers 2012

  • If memory serves me as a down-home Mobile boy before I had the good sense to move to San Francisco, the best restaurant in Houston is a Waffle House, hold the KARO.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

  • If memory serves me as a down-home Mobile boy before I had the good sense to move to San Francisco, the best restaurant in Houston is a Waffle House, hold the KARO.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

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