home
46 ENTRIES FOUND:
- home (noun)
- home (adverb)
- home (adjective)
- home (verb)
- home base (noun)
- home economics (noun)
- home fries (noun)
- home front (noun)
- home help (noun)
- home loan (noun)
- home movie (noun)
- home office (noun)
- home page (noun)
- home plate (noun)
- home rule (noun)
- home run (noun)
- home theater (noun)
- home truth (noun)
- home video (noun)
- home visit (noun)
- at–home (adjective)
- down–home (adjective)
- funeral home (noun)
- group home (noun)
- mobile home (noun)
- motor home (noun)
- nursing home (noun)
- rest home (noun)
- retirement home (noun)
- stately home (noun)
- stay–at–home (adjective)
- take–home pay (noun)
- bacon (noun)
- chicken (noun)
- close (adjective)
- come (verb)
- cow (noun)
- drive (verb)
- dry (adjective)
- free (adverb)
- hit (verb)
- ram (verb)
- roost (verb)
- strike (verb)
- sweet (adjective)
- write (verb)
plural
homes
plural
homes
Britannica Dictionary definition of HOME
1
:
the place (such as a house or apartment) where a person lives
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see also at home (below), mobile home, motor home
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Right now his home is a small apartment.
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People are concerned about protecting their homes.
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(chiefly US) The neighborhood is filled with expensive new homes. [=houses]
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They've started on a major home-improvement project. [=a project to make their house better, bigger, more modern, etc.]
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They have a second/vacation home on the lake.
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There's no place like home.
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Let's stay at home tonight. [=let's not go out tonight]
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I must have left my notes at home.
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We're a long way from home. [=we are not close to our house]
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I will be away from home [=I will not be at my house] for two weeks.
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He has no place to call home. [=he does not have a place to live]
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He works at/from home. [=he does his work in his house and not in an office building]
2
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a family living together in one building, house, etc.
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She made a good home for her husband and children.
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She came from a troubled home. [=a family with many problems]
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He comes from a broken home. [=a family in which the parents have divorced]
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She lived at home [=she lived with her parents or family] until she got married.
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He left home [=left his parent's house and lived in his own house] after graduating from high school.
3
a
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a place where something normally or naturally lives or is located
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Australia is the home [=habitat] of the kangaroo.
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The islands are home to many species of birds.
b
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the place where something began or was created
— usually + of
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The restaurant advertises itself as the home of the “Big Burger.”
c
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:
a place where something is placed, stored, etc.
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Can you find homes for these files in your office?
4
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the place where someone lives or originally comes from
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the place to which you feel most strongly attached
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New York will always be home to me.
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They made their home [=they settled] on the banks of the Mississippi.
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People back home [=in his hometown; in the place he is from] would never believe how much he has changed.
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He has fond memories of his boyhood home. [=the place where he lived as a boy]
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the place where an organization, a company, etc., is located and operates
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This building will be the orchestra's new home.
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The big television networks have their homes in the same city.
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a place where people who are unable to care for themselves live and are cared for
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see also nursing home, rest home
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an orphan's home
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an old people's home
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She doesn't want to put her mother in a home.
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[noncount]
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a place that you try to reach in some games (such as baseball)
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see also home plate
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He was tagged out at home.
at home
1
:
in your own country and not a foreign country
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We face serious threats both at home and abroad.
2
sports
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in a team's own stadium, park, etc.
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in the place where a team is based
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see also 1home 1 (above)
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The team's next six games are at home. [=in its own stadium]
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The team has done much better at home [=in its home games] than on the road.
3
:
relaxed and comfortable
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She feels at home on the stage.
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They made me feel (right) at home my first day at the new job.
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Come on in and make yourself at home. [=do what you need to do to feel relaxed and comfortable]
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The professor is equally at home in politics and history. [=knows a lot about both politics and history]
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I've never really felt/been completely at home with [=comfortable and confident about using] all these new-fangled machines.
charity begins at home
home away from home
(US) or British home from home
:
a place that is as pleasant and comfortable as your own home
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Whenever he came to the city, his brother's place was like a home away from home.
home sweet home
◊ You say home sweet home to show that you are happy when you return to your home after being away from it.
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an inn with a homelike atmosphere
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home
/ˈhoʊm/
adverb
2
home
/ˈhoʊm/
adverb
Britannica Dictionary definition of HOME
1
:
to or at the place where you live
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She called home to say she would be late for dinner.
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He's sending money home from a job overseas.
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She is on her way home.
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It's great to be back home.
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(chiefly US) They're never home when I try to see them.
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I can't wait to come/go/get home.
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(chiefly US) Let's stay home tonight. [=let's not go out tonight]
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He brings/takes home about $750 a week. [=the amount of money he gets after paying taxes, health insurance, etc., is about $750 each week]
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a
:
into a finished or final position
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He used a hammer to drive the nail home.
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shove the bolt home [=all the way into its place]
b
sports
:
to, toward, or into a goal
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He fired the puck home. [=he shot the hockey puck into the goal]
bring home the bacon
bring (something) home
:
to make (something) very clear and obvious in usually a forceful or unpleasant way
— usually + to
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The importance of regular exercise was brought home to him when his best friend developed heart problems.
close to home
come home to
:
to become very clear and obvious to (someone) in usually a forceful or unpleasant way
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The truth about her marriage came home to her when he left her.
come home to roost
drive your point home
:
to say something in a very strong or forceful way
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to make a point very forcefully
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He drove his point home during the debate.
hit/strike home
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to become very clear and obvious in usually a forceful or unpleasant way
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The truth about their marriage finally hit home.
home free
(US) informal or British home and dry
:
sure of succeeding, winning, etc.
:
no longer in danger of failing
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If we can meet this next deadline, we'll be home free.
nothing to write home about
ram home
till/until the cows come home
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home
/ˈhoʊm/
adjective
3
home
/ˈhoʊm/
adjective
Britannica Dictionary definition of HOME
always used before a noun
1
:
of or relating to a home or family
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She has a happy home life.
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Please give us your home phone number.
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What is your home address?
2
:
designed to be used in your home
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done or made in your home
— often used in combination
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see also home movie, home video
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a home entertainment system
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He couldn't wait to have a home-cooked meal. [=a meal made and eaten at home]
4
chiefly British
:
of, relating to, or coming from within your own country
:
domestic
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We can make a profit on home sales alone.
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the home market
home brew
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home
/ˈhoʊm/
verb
homes;
homed;
homing
4
home
/ˈhoʊm/
verb
homes;
homed;
homing
Britannica Dictionary definition of HOME
home in on
[phrasal verb]
home in on (someone or something)
:
to find and move directly toward (someone or something)
— often used figuratively
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The missile was homing in on its target.
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Researchers are homing in on the cause of the disease.
