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home

(adjective) used of your own ground; “a home game”

home

(adjective) relating to or being where one lives or where one’s roots are; “my home town”

home

(adverb) 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”

home

(adverb) to the fullest extent; to the heart; “drove the nail home”; “drove his point home”; “his comments hit home”

home

(adverb) on or to the point aimed at; “the arrow struck home”

dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house

(noun) housing that someone is living in; “he built a modest dwelling near the pond”; “they raise money to provide homes for the homeless”

home, nursing home, rest home

(noun) an institution where people are cared for; “a home for the elderly”

family, household, house, home, menage

(noun) 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”; “the family refused to accept his will”

home

(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”

base, home

(noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

home, place

(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?”

home

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

home

(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”

home

(verb) return home accurately from a long distance; “homing pigeons”

home

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

Home (uncountable)

(computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the Internet to the top of the web page.

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Etymology 2

Proper noun

Home

A habitational surname.

Anagrams

• hemo-

Etymology

Noun

home (plural homes)

A dwelling.

One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.

The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.

The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.

A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.

(by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.

One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.

The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.

A focus point.

(board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.

(baseball) Home plate.

(lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.

(computers) Clipping of home directory.

Synonyms

• (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence

• ((baseball) home plate): home base

Verb

home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)

(of, animals, transitive) To return to its owner.

(always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.

Adjective

home (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. [from 13th c.]

(now, rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]

(obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]

(sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]

Antonyms: away, road, visitor

Adverb

home (not comparable)

To one's home

To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location

To one's place of birth

To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length

(internet) To the home page

At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home

To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.

(UK, soccer) into the goal

(nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position

Usage notes

• Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.

Synonyms

• (to home): homeward

Anagrams

• hemo-

Source: Wiktionary

Home, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: See Homelyn.

Home (110), n. Etym: [OE. hom, ham, AS. ham; akin to OS. hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. këmas, and perh. to Gr.hind a peasant; cf. Skr.ksh abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell.

1. 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. The disciples went away again to their own home. John xx. 10. Home is the sacred refuge of our life. Dryden. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home. Payne.

2. 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]." Hawthorne.

3. 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. Byron.

4. 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. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson. Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. Prior.

5. 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. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Eccl. xii. 5.

6. (Baseball)

Definition: The home base; he started for home. At home.(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers.

– Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it.

– To feel at home, to be at one's ease.

– To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.

Syn.

– Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.

Home, a.

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

2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. Home base (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run.

– Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.

– Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.] -- Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home- rule members of Parliament.

– Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule.

– Home run (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base.

– Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.

– Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.

Home, adv.

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

2. Close; closely. How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. South. They come home to men's business and bosoms. Bacon.

3. 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. Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. Shak.

Note: Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home- grown, etc. To bring home. See under Bring.

– To come home.(a) To touch or affect personally. See under Come. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.

– To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole. Totten.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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