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Definition of 'HOME' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) home
a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.

2.  home
the place in which one's domestic affections are centered.

3.  home
an institution for people with special needs:
a nursing home.

4.  home
the dwelling place or retreat of an animal.

5.  home
the place or region where something is native or most common.

6.  home
any place of residence or refuge.

7.  home
a person's own country.

8.  home
headquarters:
The company's home is in Detroit.

9.  home
(in games) the destination or goal.

10. (adj.) home
of or pertaining to one's home or country; domestic:
home products.

11.  home
principal:
the corporation's home office.

12.  home
reaching the mark aimed at:
a home thrust.

13.  home
played in a team's own area.

14. (adv.) home
to, toward, or at home.

15.  home
deep:
The truth struck home.

16.  home
to the point aimed at:
He drove the nail home.

17. (v.i.) home
to go or return home.

18.  home
to proceed toward a specified target (often fol. by in on):
The missile homed in on the target.

19. (v.t.) home
to send to or provide with a home.

20.  home
to direct, as toward an airport or target.

21.  home
in one's own house or place of residence.

22.  home
prepared to receive social visits.

23.  home
comfortable; at ease:
Make yourself at home.

24.  home
proficient:
a scholar at home in the classics.

25.  home
in a position assured of success or out of jeopardy.

Etymology:  (1850–55, Amer.)

Definition of 'HOME' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) home, place
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?"

2. (noun) dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
housing that someone is living in
"he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

3. (noun) home
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"

4. (noun) home plate, home base, home, plate
(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"

5. (noun) base, home
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

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

7. (noun) home
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"

8. (noun) family, household, house, home, menage
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. (adj) home, nursing home, rest home
an institution where people are cared for
"a home for the elderly"

10. (adj) home(a)
used of your own ground
"a home game"

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

12. (verb) home(a), interior(a), internal, national
inside the country
"the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"

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

14. (adverb) home
return home accurately from a long distance
"homing pigeons"

15. (adverb) home
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"

16. (adverb) home
on or to the point aimed at
"the arrow struck home"

17. (adverb) home
to the fullest extent; to the heart
"drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"


Definition of 'HOME' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) home
the place sb lives or comes from
My son was sick, so I kept him at home today.; You have a beautiful home.; I don't like being away from home for too long.; This town has always been my home.

2.  home
leave home
to move away from your family home
kids leaving home for college

3.  home
make yourself at home
used to tell welcome a visitor and ask them to relax
Come in! Make yourself at home.

4.  home
the town or city a sports team is based in
They're playing at home this week.

5.  home
feel at home
to feel happy and confident with a situation
She felt at home with her decision.

6.  home
on a website, the button you click in order to return to the home page
Click on the home icon.

7. (adverb) home
toward or at the place you live
Mom, I want to go home.; I'll be home all evening.

8. (adjective) home
relating to where you live and the things you do there
my home telephone number; home furnishings; home cooking

9.  home
≠ away
the home team/crowd


Definition of 'HOME' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) HOME
of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts

2. (adj) HOME
close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust

3. (adverb) HOME
to one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home

4. (adverb) HOME
close; closely

5. (adverb) HOME
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

6. (noun) HOME
see Homelyn

7. (noun) HOME
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

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

9. (noun) HOME
the abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections

10. (noun) HOME
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

11. (noun) HOME
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

12. (noun) HOME
the home base; he started for home


Definitions of 'HOME' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  HOME
defined by Ruskin as "the place of Peace; the shelter not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer world penetrate into it, and the inconsistently-minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society, the outer world, is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home; it is then only a part of the outer world which you have roofed over and lighted a fire in."


Definitions of 'HOME' The Roycroft Dictionary 

HOME
1. A place where we go to change our clothes so as to go somewhere else.

2. The abode of the heart.


Translation of 'HOME' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the house, town, country etc where a person etc usually lives
I work in London but my home is in Bournemouth; When I retire, I'll make my home in Bournemouth; Africa is the home of the lion; We'll have to find a home for the kitten.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: huis, tuiste Arabic flag Arabic: بيْت Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: дом
Brazilian flag Brazilian: lar Czech flag Czech: domov German flag German: die Heimat
Danish flag Danish: hjem Greek flag Greek: σπίτι, σπιτικό Spanish flag Spanish: casa
Estonian flag Estonian: kodu Farsi flag Farsi: خانه Finnish flag Finnish: koti
French flag French: maison; habitat Hebrew flag Hebrew: בַּיִת Hindi flag Hindi: घर, देश इत्यादि
Croatian flag Croatian: kuca, stan, dom Hungarian flag Hungarian: lakhely; otthon Indonesian flag Indonesian: tempat tinggal
Icelandic flag Icelandic: heimili Italian flag Italian: casa; habitat Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: (사람이 현재 가족과 함께 살고 있는) 집 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: namai Latvian flag Latvian: mājas; (auga, dzīvnieka)
Malay flag Malay: rumah Dutch flag Dutch: thuis Norwegian flag Norwegian: hjem(sted), bosted
Polish flag Polish: dom, miejsce zamieszkania Persian flag Persian: خانه Pashto flag Pashto: کور
Portuguese flag Portuguese: lar Romanian flag Romanian: casă; locuinţă Russian flag Russian: дом
Slovak flag Slovak: domov Slovenian flag Slovenian: dom Serbian flag Serbian: dom
Swedish flag Swedish: hem Thai flag Thai: บ้านเกิด Turkish flag Turkish: yuva, ev, vatan,ülke, yur
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: дім, житло Urdu flag Urdu: مکان
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nhà; chỗ ở Chinese flag Chinese: 

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