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Home

DWELLING-PLACE USED AS A PERMANENT OR SEMI-PERMANENT RESIDENCE

Private residence; 🏡; Private house; Homes; Domestic residence; Home away from home

·adv Close; closely.

II. Home ·noun ·see Homelyn.

III. Home ·noun The home base; he started for home.

IV. Home ·adj Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

V. Home ·add. ·noun The plate at which the batter stands.

VI. Home ·noun The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

VII. Home ·adv To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

VIII. Home ·add. ·noun In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal.

IX. Home ·add. ·noun The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.

X. Home ·adj Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

XI. Home ·noun One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.

XII. Home ·adv To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.

XIII. Home ·noun The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.

XIV. Home ·noun One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; ·esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.

XV. Home ·noun A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, ·esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.

home

DWELLING-PLACE USED AS A PERMANENT OR SEMI-PERMANENT RESIDENCE

Private residence; 🏡; Private house; Homes; Domestic residence; Home away from home

(homes)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

Someone's home is the house or flat where they live.

Last night they stayed at home and watched TV...

...his home in Hampstead.

...the allocation of land for new homes.

N-COUNT: oft poss N, also at N

You can use home to refer in a general way to the house, town, or country where someone lives now or where they were born, often to emphasize that they feel they belong in that place.

She gives frequent performances of her work, both at home and abroad...

His father worked away from home for much of Jim's first five years...

Warwick is home to some 550 international students...

N-UNCOUNT

Home means to or at the place where you live.

His wife wasn't feeling too well and she wanted to go home...

Hi, Mom, I'm home!...

ADV: ADV after v, be ADV

Home means made or done in the place where you live.

...cheap but healthy home cooking...

All you have to do is make a home video.

ADJ: ADJ n

Home means relating to your own country as opposed to foreign countries.

Europe's software companies still have a growing home market.

= domestic

ADJ: ADJ n

A home is a large house or institution where a number of people live and are looked after, instead of living in their own houses or flats. They usually live there because they are too old or ill to look after themselves or for their families to care for them.

...an old people's home.

N-COUNT

You can refer to a family unit as a home.

She had, at any rate, provided a peaceful and loving home for Harriet...

N-COUNT

If you refer to the home of something, you mean the place where it began or where it is most typically found.

This south-west region of France is the home of claret.

N-SING: with supp, usu N of n

If you find a home for something, you find a place where it can be kept.

The equipment itself is getting smaller, neater and easier to find a home for.

N-COUNT: oft N for n

10.

If you press, drive, or hammer something home, you explain it to people as forcefully as possible.

It is now up to all of us to debate this issue and press home the argument.

ADV: ADV after v

11.

When a sports team plays at home, they play a game on their own ground, rather than on the opposing team's ground.

I scored in both games against Barcelona; we drew at home and beat them away.

N-UNCOUNT: usu at N

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Home is also an adjective.

All three are Chelsea fans, and attend all home games together.

? away

ADJ: ADJ n

12.

If you feel at home, you feel comfortable in the place or situation that you are in.

He spoke very good English and appeared pleased to see us, and we soon felt quite at home...

PHRASE: v-link PHR

13.

To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.

Their sobering conversation brought home to everyone present the serious and worthwhile work the Red Cross does.

PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR to n

14.

If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.

The prime minister and the moderates are not yet home and dry.

PHRASE: v-link PHR

15.

If a situation or what someone says hits home or strikes home, people accept that it is real or true, even though it may be painful for them to realize.

Did the reality of war finally hit home?...

PHRASE: V inflects

16.

You can say a home from home in British English or a home away from home in American English to refer to a place in which you are as comfortable as in your own home.

Many cottages are a home from home, offering microwaves, dishwashers, tvs and videos.

PHRASE: usu v-link PHR [approval]

17.

If you say to a guest 'Make yourself at home', you are making them feel welcome and inviting them to behave in an informal, relaxed way.

CONVENTION [politeness]

18.

If you say that something is nothing to write home about, you mean that it is not very interesting or exciting. (INFORMAL)

So a dreary Monday afternoon in Walthamstow is nothing to write home about, right?

PHRASE: v-link PHR

19.

If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target. (WRITTEN)

Only two torpedoes struck home.

PHRASE: V inflects

home

DWELLING-PLACE USED AS A PERMANENT OR SEMI-PERMANENT RESIDENCE

Private residence; 🏡; Private house; Homes; Domestic residence; Home away from home

¦ noun

1. the place where one lives permanently.

a house or flat.

2. an institution for people needing professional care.

3. a place where something flourishes or from which it originated.

4. the finishing point in a race.

5. (in games) the place where a player is free from attack.

6. (in lacrosse) each of the three players nearest their opponents' goal.

¦ adjective

1. relating to one's home.

made, done, or intended for use in the home.

2. relating to one's own country.

3. (of a team or player) belonging to the place in which a sporting event occurs.

played on a team's own ground.

¦ adverb

1. to or at one's home.

2. to the end or conclusion of something.

3. to the intended or correct position: he slid the bolt home.

¦ verb

1. (of an animal) return by instinct to its territory.

2. (home in on) move or be aimed towards.

3. provide (a pet) with a home.

Phrases

at home

1. comfortable and at ease.

2. ready to receive visitors.

bring something home to make (someone) realize the significance of something.

close (or near) to home (of a remark) accurate to the point that one feels uncomfortable.

come home Golf play the last nine holes in a round of eighteen.

drive (or hammer) something home stress a point forcefully.

hit (or strike) home (of words) have the intended effect.

?(of the significance of a situation) be fully realized.

home and dry (N. Amer. home free, Austral./NZ home and hosed) having achieved one's objective.

(a) home from (or N. Amer. away from) home a place where one feels as comfortable as in one's own home.

Derivatives

homeless adjective

homelessness noun

homelike adjective

Origin

OE ham, of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Home (disambiguation)

A home is a place of residence. In real estate usage, new or unoccupied dwelling units are often euphemistically called "homes" even though no one lives there.

Home may also refer to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home (disambiguation)

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