1. (noun)home, place where you live at a particulartime "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 rubberslab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a baserunner 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 environmentofferingaffection 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 socialunitliving 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. (noun)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. (adj)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"
14. (verb)home returnhome 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"
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