Home

[həʊm] or [hom]

Definition

(noun.) an institution where people are cared for; 'a home for the elderly'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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?'.

(noun.) place where something began and flourished; 'the United States is the home of basketball'.

(noun.) 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.) return home accurately from a long distance; 'homing pigeons'.

(verb.) provide with, or send to, a home.

(adj.) relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; 'my home town' .

(adj.) inside the country; 'the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior'; 'the nation's internal politics' .

(adj.) used of your own ground; 'a home game' .

(adv.) 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'.

(adv.) to the fullest extent; to the heart; 'drove the nail home'; 'drove his point home'; 'his comments hit home'.

(adv.) on or to the point aimed at; 'the arrow struck home'.

Typist: Oliver--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) See Homelyn.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.

(n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The home base; he started for home.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

(a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

(adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

(adv.) Close; closely.

(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.

Checker: Salvatore

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Domicile, dwelling, residence, abode, place of abode, abiding place.

ad. [1]. To one's home.[2]. Close, closely, pointedly.

a. [1]. Domestic, home-born.[2]. Close, pointed, direct, severe, poignant.

Checker: Natalia

Synonyms and Antonyms

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Definition

n. one's house or country: place of constant residence: the residence of a family: the seat as of war: a charitable institution where domestic comforts are given to the destitute.—adj. pertaining to one's dwelling or country: domestic: close: severe.—adv. pertaining to one's habitation or country: close: closely: to the point: effectively.—adjs. Home′-born native not foreign; Home′bound homeward-bound; Home′-bred bred at home: native: domestic: plain: unpolished; Home′-brewed brewed at home or for home use.—n. Home′-farm the farm near the home or mansion of a gentleman.—adjs. Home′felt felt in one's own breast: inward: private; Home′-grown produced in one's own country not imported; Home′-keep′ing staying at home; Home′less without a home.—n. Home′lessness —adv. Home′lily.—n. Home′liness.—adjs. Home′ly pertaining to home: familiar: plain; Home′-made made at home: made in one's own country: plain.—n. Hom′er a pigeon trained to fly home from a distance.—adj. Home′sick sick or grieved at separation from home.—n. Home′sickness.—adj. Home′spun spun or wrought at home: not made in foreign countries: plain: inelegant.—n. cloth made at home.—ns. Home′stall Home′stead the place of a mansion-house: the enclosures immediately connected with it: original station.—advs. Home′ward Home′wards towards home: towards one's habitation or country.—adj. in the direction of home.—adj. Home′ward-bound bound homeward or to one's native land.—adjs. Hom′ing having a tendency to return home; Hom′y home-like.—Home circuit the south-eastern circuit of Assize including the home counties (except Middlesex) also Cambridgeshire Norfolk and Suffolk; Home counties the counties over and into which London has extended—Middlesex Hertfordshire Essex Kent Surrey; Home Department that part of government which is concerned with the maintenance of the internal peace of the United Kingdom—its headquarters the Home Office its official head the Home Secretary; Home rule a form of self-government claimed by Ireland with a separate parliament for the management of internal affairs.—At home in one's own house: at ease: familiar: a phrase signifying that a family will be at home at a fixed date and ready to receive visitors—as a n.—a reception; Bring home to to prove to in such a way that there is no way of escaping the conclusion: to impress upon; Eat out of house and home to live at the expense of another so as to ruin him; Long home the grave; Make one's self at home to be as free and unrestrained as when in one's own house; Pay home to strike to the quick: to retaliate.

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