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home

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9
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9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/həʊm/
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/həʊm/ · /hoʊm/(US) · [hoːm] · /hom/ · /ˈhjuːm/

Definition of home

34 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A dwelling.
    “And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.”
    “Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.”
    “Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.”
    “If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries.”
    “Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.”
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noun

  1. A dwelling.
    “And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.”
    “Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.”
    “Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.”
    “If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries.”
    “Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.”
  2. A dwelling.
    “The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.”
    “Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.”
  3. A dwelling.
    “He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…]”
  4. A dwelling.
    “It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home”
  5. A dwelling.
    “a home for outcasts”
    “a home for the blind”
    “a veterans' home”
    “Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.”
    “Our grandmama's moved into a home.”
  6. (broadly)A dwelling.
    “[…] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]”
  7. (broadly)A dwelling.
    “The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".”
  8. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
    “Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.”
    “Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?”
    “So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”
    “I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.”
  9. 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”
    “[…] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]”
    “Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.”
    “Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.”
  10. A focus point.
    “The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.”
  11. A focus point.
  12. A focus point.
  13. (Internet)A focus point.
  14. (informal)A focus point.
  15. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of home directory.
  16. (uncountable)A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.

verb

  1. (intransitive)To return to its owner.
    “The dog homed.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
    “home manufactures”
  2. (archaic, not-comparable)That strikes home; direct, pointed.
    “a home truth”
  3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Personal, intimate.
    “I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].”
  4. (not-comparable)Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
    “the home end, home advantage, home supporters”

adv

  1. (not-comparable)To one's home.
    “go home”
    “come home”
    “carry someone home”
    “I invited them home.”
    “He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."”
  2. (not-comparable)To one's home.
  3. (not-comparable)To one's home.
    “She drove the nail home”
    “ram a cartridge home”
    “Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]”
    “Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.”
  4. (Internet, not-comparable)To one's home.
    “Click here to go home.”
  5. (not-comparable)At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
    “1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.”
  6. (not-comparable)To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
    “1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral, I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.”
    “How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]”
    “Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!”
  7. (UK, not-comparable)into the goal
    “2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February, Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.”
  8. (not-comparable)into the right, proper or stowed position
    “sails sheeted home”

name

  1. A habitational surname from Old English.
  2. A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:
  3. A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:
  4. A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:
  5. A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates…

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From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

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