place of birth

1. 1.

   the place where someone was born

   Synonymsbirthplace

   Broadertopographic point

Questions about place of birth

What does place of birth mean?

place of birth means "the place where someone was born".

What is another word for place of birth?

Close synonyms include birthplace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is place of birth a common word?

place of birth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.