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adjective
(1) Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
"My home town"
adverb
(2) At or to or in the direction of one's home or family
"He stays home on weekends"
"After the game the children brought friends home for supper"
"I'll be home tomorrow"
"Came riding home in style"
"I hope you will come home for Christmas"
"I'll take her home"
"Don't forget to write home"
(3) To the fullest extent; to the heart
"Drove the nail home"
"Drove his point home"
"His comments hit home"
(4) On or to the point aimed at
"The arrow struck home"
noun
(5) Housing that someone is living in
"He built a modest dwelling near the pond"
"They raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
(6) An institution where people are cared for
"A home for the elderly"
(7) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
"He ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
(8) A social unit living together
"He moved his family to Virginia"
"It was a good Christian household"
"I waited until the whole house was asleep"
"The teacher asked how many people made up his home"
(9) The country or state or city where you live
"Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"
"His home is New Jersey"
(10) The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
(11) Where you live at a particular time
"Deliver the package to my home"
"He doesn't have a home to go to"
"Your place or mine?"
(12) Place where something began and flourished
"The United States is the home of basketball"
(13) An environment offering affection and security
"Home is where the heart is"
"He grew up in a good Christian home"
"There's no place like home"
verb
(14) Return home accurately from a long distance
"Homing pigeons"
(15) Provide with, or send to, a home
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English
Etymology
From < < < , an o-grade variant of . Cognate with German , Swedish , Dutch and , and the place-name segment .
Noun
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
- The disciples went away again to their own home. —John xx. 10.
- Home is the sacred refuge of our life. — John Dryden.
- Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There’s no place like home. — John Howard Payne.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- Our old home England. — Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- The place where a person was raised. Childhood or parental home. Home of one’s parents or guardian.
- I left home last year.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- He entered in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. — George Gordon Byron.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- the home of the pine.
- Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. — Alfred Tennyson.
- Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. — Matthew Prior.
- A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. —Eccl. xii.
- In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's home page
Synonyms
tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence home baseVerb
- (usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
- Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Adverb
- To one’s home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
- Close; closely.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. —South.
- They come home to men’s business and bosoms. —Bacon.
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- to drive a nail home
- to ram a cartridge home
- Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. —Shak.
- Into the goal.
- 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,