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home

[hōm]

Use home in a sentence

adjective

The definition of home is something that relates to or happens inside the place where a person or family resides.
1. An example of home used as an adjective is the phrase home work which is the studying and assignments a student does away from school.
2. An example of home used as an adjective is the phrase home office which is an office inside your house.

noun

Home is defined as a house or place where a person or family lives or where someone was born.
1. An example of home is Balmoral Castle where Queen Elizabeth II resides.
2. An example of home is Hawaii where Barack Obama was born.

A family sits outside their home.

home

noun

the place where a person (or family) lives; one's dwelling place; specif.,
1. the house, apartment, etc. where one lives or is living temporarily; living quarters
2. the region, city, state, etc. where one lives
the place where one was born or reared; one's own city, state, or country
a place thought of as home; specif.,
1. a place where one likes to be; restful or congenial place
2. the grave
the members of a family as a unit; a household and its affairs: homes broken up by divorce
an institution for the care of orphans, people who are old and helpless, etc.
1. the place that is the natural environment of an animal, plant, etc.
2. the place where something is or has been originated, developed, etc.: Paris is the home of fashion
1. in many games, the base or goal
2. ☆ the home plate in baseball

Origin of home

Middle English ; from Old English hām, akin to German heim ; from Germanic an unverified form haim ; from Indo-European base an unverified form kei-, to lie, homestead from source hide, Classical Greek keisthai, to lie down, rest, Classical Latin civis, townsman, Old Norse heimr, home, Gothic haima, Old High German heim: basic sense “place where one lies; dwelling”

adjective

of home or a home; specif.,
1. of the family, household, etc.; domestic
2. of one's country, government, etc.; domestic
3. of or at the center of activity or operations: home office
reaching its goal; effective; forceful; to the point: a home truth
1. designating or having to do with games played in the city, at the school, etc. where the team originates: a team's home field
2. designating or of the team playing in its own city or at its own school or facility: white home uniforms
of or for use in the home

adverb

at, to, or in the direction of home or a home
to the place where it must ultimately go; to the point aimed at: to drive a nail home
to the center or heart of a matter; closely; directly; deeply

Origin of home

orig. the n. as acc. of direction

intransitive verb

homed, homing

to go or return to one's home
to have a home

transitive verb

to send to, put into, or provide with a home

home Idioms

at home

in one's own house, neighborhood, city, or country
as if in one's own home; comfortable; at ease; familiar
willing to receive visitors

bring something home to

to impress something upon or make something clear to
to fasten the blame for something on (someone)

come home

to return, as to one's home

home free

☆

Slang beyond the point of doubt in approaching success or victory

home (in) on

to guide, or be guided as by radar, heat, etc., to (a destination or target)

home

noun

A place where one lives; a residence.
The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
a. An environment offering security and happiness.
b. A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.
The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period.
The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
A headquarters; a home base.
a. Baseball Home plate.
b. Games Home base.
An institution where people are cared for: a home for the elderly.
Computers
a. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
b. A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list.

adjective

a. Of or relating to a home, especially to one's household or house: home cooking; home furnishings.
b. Taking place in the home: home care for the elderly.
Of, relating to, or being a place of origin or headquarters: the home office.
Sports Relating to a team's sponsoring institution or to the place where it is franchised: a home game; the home field advantage.
Of, relating to, or being the keys used as base positions for the fingers in touch-typing: The home row on a standard keyboard consists of the keys for A, S, D, F, J, K, L, ;, and '.

adverb

At, to, or toward the direction of home: going home for lunch.
On or into the point at which something is directed: The arrow struck home.
To the center or heart of something; deeply: Your comments really hit home.

verb

homed homed, hom·ing, homes

verb

, intransitive

To go or return to one's residence or base of operations.
To move or advance toward a target or goal: The missile homed in on the target.
To focus the attention or make progress achieving an objective: The investigators were homing in on the truth.

verb

, transitive

To guide (a missile or aircraft) to a target.
Chiefly British
a. To arrange to have (an animal) placed in a home.
b. To take (an animal) into one's home.

Origin of home

Middle English, from Old English hām; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.

home

Noun

(plural homes)

A dwelling.
1. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
2. The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
4. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
  a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; a veterans' home
5. (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.
the home of the pine
A focus point.
1. (gaming, in various games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
  The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
2. (baseball) Home plate.
3. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
4. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
(US, slang) Shortened form of homeboy.

Verb

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

(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
The missile was able to home in on the target.

Adjective

(not comparable)

Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

Adverb

(not comparable)

To one’s home or country.
go home, come home, carry home.
Close; closely.
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
(Internet) To the home page.
Click here to go home.

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.

Related terms

home away from home
home and dry
home and hosed
home free
parental home
hometown

Origin

From Middle English home, hom, hoom, ham, from Old English hām (“village, hamlet, manor, estate, home, dwelling, house, region, country”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”).

Noun

(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.

Origin

From home

Proper noun