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Plans for a detached house showing the social functions for each room
A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be performed such as sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene as well as providing spaces for work and leisure such as remote working, studying and playing.
Physical forms of homes can be static such as a house or an apartment, mobile such as a houseboat, trailer or yurt or digital such as virtual space.[1] The aspect of ‘home’ can be considered across scales; from the micro scale showcasing the most intimate spaces of the individual dwelling and direct surrounding area to the macro scale of the geographic area such as town, village, city, country or planet.
The concept of ‘home’ has been researched and theorized across disciplines – topics ranging from the idea of home, the interior, the psyche, liminal space, contested space to gender and politics.[2] The home as a concept expands beyond residence as contemporary lifestyles and technological advances redefine the way the global population lives and works.[citation needed] The concept and experience encompasses the likes of exile, yearning, belonging, homesickness and homelessness.[3]
History
Prehistoric era
The earliest homes that humans inhabited were likely naturally occurring features such as caves. The earliest human fossils found in caves come from a series of caves near Krugersdorp and Mokopane in South Africa. The cave sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai B, Drimolen, Malapa, Cooper’s D, Gladysvale, Gondolin and Makapansgat have yielded a range of early human species dating back to between three and one million years ago, including Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus sediba and Paranthropus robustus. However, it is not generally thought that these early humans were living in the caves, but that they were brought into the caves by carnivores that had killed them.[citation needed]
The first early hominid ever found in Africa, the Taung Child in 1924, was also thought for many years to come from a cave, where it had been deposited after being preyed upon by an eagle. However, this is now debated.[4] Caves do form in the dolomite of the Ghaap Plateau, including the Early, Middle and Later Stone Age site of Wonderwerk Cave; however, the caves that form along the escarpment’s edge, like that hypothesized for the Taung Child, are formed within a secondary limestone deposit called tufa. There is numerous evidence for other early human species inhabiting caves from at least one million years ago in different parts of the world, including Homo erectus in China at Zhoukoudian, Homo rhodesiensis in South Africa at the Cave of Hearths (Makapansgat), Homo neanderthalensis and Homo heidelbergensis in Europe at Archaeological Site of Atapuerca, Homo floresiensis in Indonesia, and the Denisovans in southern Siberia.
In southern Africa, early modern humans regularly used sea caves as shelter starting about 180,000 years ago when they learned to exploit the sea for the first time.[5] The oldest known site is PP13B at Pinnacle Point. This may have allowed rapid expansion of humans out of Africa and colonization of areas of the world such as Australia by 60–50,000 years ago. Throughout southern Africa, Australia, and Europe, early modern humans used caves and rock shelters as sites for rock art, such as those at Giants Castle. Caves such as the yaodong in China were used for shelter; other caves were used for burials (such as rock-cut tombs), or as religious sites (such as Buddhist caves). Among the known sacred caves are China’s Cave of a Thousand Buddhas[6] and the sacred caves of Crete. As technology progressed, humans and other hominids began constructing their own dwellings. Buildings such as huts and longhouses have been used for living since the late Neolithic.[7]
Ancient era
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Post-classical era
From the 14th to the 16th century, homelessness was perceived of as a «vagrancy problem» and legislative responses to the problem were predicated upon the threat it may pose to the state.[8]
Modern era
Industrialization brought mass migration to cities. This one-room worker home from Helsinki is typical to late 19th century and early 20th century, often housing large families.[citation needed]
According to Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, «It can be argued that historically and cross-culturally there is not always [a] strong relation between the concept of home and the physical building, and that this mode of thinking is rooted in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth century».[9] Before, one’s home was more public than private; traits such as privacy, intimacy and familiarity would proceed to achieve greater prominence, aligning the concept with the bourgeoisie.[10][11] The connection between home and house was reinforced by a case law declaration from Edward Coke: «The house of everyman is to him as his castle and fortresse, as well as his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose». Colloquially, this was adapted into the phrase «The Englishman’s home is his castle» which popularised the notion of home as house.[12]
A result of the longstanding association between home and women, 18th century English women, of upper-class status, were scorned for pursuing activities outside of the home, thus seen to be of undesirable character.[13] The concept of home took on unprecedent prominence by the 18th century, reified by cultural practice.[14]
The concept of a smart home arose in the 19th century in turn with electricity having been introduced to homes in a limited capacity.[9] The distinction between home and work formulated in the 20th century, with home acting as sanctuary.[15] Modern definitions portray home as a site of supreme comfort and familial intimacy, operating as a buffer to the greater world.[13]
Common types
The concept of home is one with multiple interpretations, influenced by one’s history and identity.[16] People of differing ages, genders, ethnicities and classes may have resultingly different meanings of home.[17] Commonly, it is associated with various forms of abodes such as wagons, cars, boats or tents although it is equally considered to extend beyond the space, in mind and emotion.[8][18][19] The space of a home need not be significant or fixed though the boundaries of home are often tied to the space.[18][19] There have been multiple theories regarding one’s choice of home with the residential conditions of their childhood often reflected in their later choice of home.[10] According to Paul Oliver, the vast majority of abodes are vernacular, constructed in accordance with the residents’ needs.[20]
House
House at 8A, Bulevardul Aviatorilor, Bucharest, Romania
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.[21][22]
The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, although households may also be other social groups, such as roommates or, in a rooming house, unconnected individuals. Some houses only have a dwelling space for one family or similar-sized group; larger houses called townhouses or row houses may contain numerous family dwellings in the same structure. A house may be accompanied by outbuildings, such as a garage for vehicles or a shed for gardening equipment and tools. A house may have a backyard or a front yard or both, which serve as additional areas where inhabitants can relax or eat.[citation needed] Houses may provide «certain activities, which gradually accumulate meaning until they become homes».[19]
Joseph Rykwert distinguished between home and house in their physicality; a house requires a building whereas a home does not.[23] Home and house are often used interchangeably, although their connotations may differ: house being «emotionally netural» and home evoking «personal, cognitive aspects».[19][24] By the mid-18th century, the definition of home had extended beyond a house.[14] «Few English words are filled with the emotional meaning of the word home».[13]
Moveable structures
A traditional Kazakh yurt on a wagon
Home as constitutionally mobile and transient has been contended by anthropologists and sociologist.[25] A mobile home (also known as a house trailer, park home, trailer, or trailer home) is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation, they are often left permanently or semi-permanently in one place, but can be moved, and may be required to move from time to time for legal reasons.
A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a home. Some houseboats are not motorized, because they are usually moored, kept stationary at a fixed point and often tethered to land to provide utilities. However, many are capable of operation under their own power. Float house is a Canadian and American term for a house on a float (raft); a rough house may be called a shanty boat.[26] In Western countries, houseboats tend to be either owned privately or rented out to holiday-goers, and on some canals in Europe, people dwell in houseboats all year round. Examples of this include, but are not limited to, Amsterdam, London, and Paris.[27]
A traditional yurt or ger is a portable round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure consists of an angled assembly or latticework of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs (poles, rafters), and a wheel (crown, compression ring) possibly steam-bent. The roof structure is often self-supporting, but large yurts may have interior posts supporting the crown. The top of the wall of self-supporting yurts is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs. Modern yurts may be permanently built on a wooden platform; they may use modern materials such as steam-bent wooden framing or metal framing, canvas or tarpaulin, plexiglass dome, wire rope, or radiant insulation.
Management
Housing cooperative
999 N. Lake Shore Drive, a co-op–owned residential building in Chicago, Illinois
A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure. Housing cooperatives are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family home ownership, condominiums and renting.[28]
The corporation is membership based, with membership granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit. A primary advantage of the housing cooperative is the pooling of the members’ resources so that their buying power is leveraged; thus lowering the cost per member in all the services and products associated with home ownership.
Repair
A person making these repairs to a house after a flood
Home repair involves the diagnosis and resolution of problems in a home, and is related to home maintenance to avoid such problems. Many types of repairs are «do it yourself» (DIY) projects, while others may be so complicated, time-consuming or risky as to require the assistance of a qualified handyperson, property manager, contractor/builder, or other professionals.
Home repair is not the same as renovation, although many improvements can result from repairs or maintenance. Often the costs of larger repairs will justify the alternative of investment in full-scale improvements. It may make just as much sense to upgrade a home system (with an improved one) as to repair it or incur ever-more-frequent and expensive maintenance for an inefficient, obsolete or dying system.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as tidying, cleaning, cooking, routine maintenance, shopping, and bill payment. These tasks may be performed by members of the household, or by persons hired for the purpose. This is a more broad role than a cleaner, who is focused only on the cleaning aspect.[29] The term is also used to refer to the money allocated for such use.[30] By extension, it may also refer to an office or organization, as well as the maintenance of computer storage systems.[31]
The basic concept can be divided into domestic housekeeping, for private households, and institutional housekeeping for commercial and other institutions providing shelter or lodging, such as hotels, resorts, inns, boarding houses, dormitories, hospitals and prisons.[32][33] There are related concepts in industry known as workplace housekeeping and Industrial housekeeping, which are part of occupational health and safety processes.
A housekeeper is a person employed to manage a household[34] and the domestic staff. According to the 1861 Victorian era Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, the housekeeper is second in command in the house and «except in large establishments, where there is a house steward, the housekeeper must consider herself as the immediate representative of her mistress».[35]
Tenure
Housing tenure is a financial arrangement and ownership structure under which someone has the right to live in a house or apartment. The most frequent forms are tenancy, in which rent is paid by the occupant to a landlord, and owner-occupancy, where the occupant owns their own home. Mixed forms of tenure are also possible.
The basic forms of tenure can be subdivided, for example an owner-occupier may own a house outright, or it may be mortgaged. In the case of tenancy, the landlord may be a private individual, a non-profit organization such as a housing association, or a government body, as in public housing.
Surveys used in social science research frequently include questions about housing tenure, because it is a useful proxy for income or wealth, and people are less reluctant to give information about it.
Owner-occupancy
Rental accommodation
This section is an excerpt from Renting.[edit]
Notice of renting availability at the Villa Freischütz in Meran in 1911
Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another. A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for all property charges regularly incurred by the ownership. An example of renting is equipment rental. Renting can be an example of the sharing economy.
Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. Squatting occurs worldwide and tends to occur when people who are poor and homeless find empty buildings or land to occupy for housing. It has a long history, broken down by country below.
In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. In African cities such as Lagos much of the population lives in slums. There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and land-based movements.
In industrialized countries, there are often residential squats and also political squatting movements, which can be anarchist, autonomist or socialist in nature, for example in the self-managed social centres of Italy or squats in the United States. Oppositional movements from the 1960s and 1970s created freespaces in Denmark or squatting village in the Netherlands, and in England and Wales, there were estimated to be 50,000 squatters in the late 1970s. Each local situation determines the context: in Athens, Greece, there are refugee squats; Germany has social centres; in Spain there are many squats.
Homelessness
The state of being without a home can occur in may ways,[36] ranging from the upheavals of natural disasters,[37] fraud, theft, arson, or war-related destruction, to the more common voluntary sale, loss for one or more occupants on relationship breakdown, expropriation by government or legislated cause, repossession or foreclosure to pay secured debts, eviction by landlords, disposal by time-limited means – lease, or absolute gift. Jurisdiction-dependent means of home loss include adverse possession, unpaid property taxation and corruption such as in circumstances of a failed state.
Personal insolvency, development or sustaining of mental illness or severe physical incapacity without affordable domestic care commonly lead to a change of home. The underlying character of a home may be debased by structural defects, natural subsidence, neglect or soil contamination. Refugees are people who have fled their homes due to violence or persecution. They may seek temporary housing in a shelter or they may claim asylum in another country in an attempt to relocate permanently.[citation needed] A dysfunctional home life commonly precipitates one’s homelessness.[36]
The dichotomy between home and homelessness is to the extent that the concept of home, scholars have said, is dependent on homelessness: «in a sense, without homelessness, we would not be concerned with what home means».[36]
Anthropogenic significance
A celebratory poster for soldiers and marines returning home
The connection between humans and dwelling is profound, such that, the likes of Gaston Bachelard and Martin Heidegger consider it an «essential characteristic» of humanity.[24] A home is generally a place that is close to the heart of the owner, and can become a prized possession. It has been argued that psychologically «The strongest sense of home commonly coincides geographically with a dwelling. Usually, the sense of home attenuates as one moves away from that point, but it does not do so in a fixed or regular way.»[38] A person’s conception of home can be dependent on congealing conditions, such as culture, geography or emotion; the sense of being at home may be contingent upon the presence of multiple emotions, such as joy, sorrow, nostalgia and pride.[39][40] Further psychological interperation contends that homes serve the purpose of satisfying identity-based desires and expression and that it functions as a «symbol of the self», bound to the events of one’s life.[17][41] Emmanuel Levinas wrote of home as where, upon seclusion from the greater world, a sense of self can be regained.[42]
There exist many connotations regarding the concept of a home, including of security, identity, ritual and socialisation, varied definitions and residents may associate their home with meanings, emotions, experiences and relationships.[9][10][43] Home has been described as an «essentially contested concept».[44] Common connotations of home are espoused by both those with or without a home.[8] It is the sociality and action of homes which some scholars have said conditions a house in to a home, which is, according to Gram-Hanssen, «a phenomenon made by its residents».[45] Dysfunctional sociality may negate the sense of a residence being a home whereas the physical contents may endow the sense; alienated from home one may feel «metaphorically homeless».[46][47][a] Romantic or nostalgic notions are typical in the conceptions of «ideal homes», at once a cultural and individual concept.[12][48] An ideal working-class home in Postwar Britain was one of comfort and cleanliness, plentiful with food and compassion.[49]
In modern America, an owned house has greater cachet as a home than other residences; debate exists as to if a rooming house can provide a home.[10][50] Some housing scholars have contended that a conflation of house and home is the result of popular media and capitalist interest.[12] Differing cultures may perceive the concept of a home differently, ascribing less value to the privacy of a residence or the residence itself – although housing issues have been seen as of great concern to immigrants.[10][b] The home can render to men and women in significant differences: men conditioned to experience great control and little labour and vice versa for women; homelessness too can be subject to differences per gender.[8][36] Sociologist Shelley Mallett preposed the idea of home as abstractions: space, feeling, praxis or «a way of being in the world».[10] Abstract notions of home are present in the proverb «A house is not a home».[36]
Since it can be said that humans are generally creatures of habit, the state of a person’s home has been known to physiologically influence their behavior, emotions, and overall mental health.[51] Marianne Gullestad wrote of the home as the center of and as an attempt to amalgamate everyday life; one’s conduct there, she said, can reflect greater culture or social values, such as gender roles insinuating the home to be the domain of women.[10][c] To be homesick is to desire belonging, said Zygmunt Bauman.[8] Places like homes can trigger self-reflection, thoughts about who someone is or used to be or who they might become.[53] These types of reflections also occur in places where there is a collective historical identity, such as Gettysburg or Ground Zero.[54] The time spent with one’s home is a considerable element in establishing one’s attachment.[10] Those without significant time spent of their life in a residence often struggle to consider home as a feature of residences.[8] The perception of one’s home can extend beyond the residence itself, to their neighbourhood, family, workplace or nation and one may feel as though they have multiple homes; to have felt at home beyond residence can be a significant element in one’s appraisal of their life, a time in which notions of home, it has been observed, are more profound.[10][55][56][52] The connection between home and family is pertinent, to the extent that some scholars consider the terms to be synonymous.[12]
See also
- Human habitats (Category)
- Ancestral home
- ARCHIVE Global
- Home automation
- Home network
- Home improvement
- Home repair
- Homemaking
- Housing
- List of countries by home ownership rate
- List of human habitation forms
- Show house
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Notes
- ^ Alienation based sense of homelessness can extend to nations and communities; Bell Hooks wrote of an African-American sense of homeless in the American South.[36]
- ^ The word for home may not be present in all cultures and languages.[20]
- ^ Research showcases that «women’s attachment to home is more pronounced than men’s and increases with the length of time spent at home».[52]
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with 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”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /(h)əʊm/
- (US) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /hoʊm/
- Rhymes: -əʊm
- Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
Noun[edit]
home (plural homes)
- A dwelling.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one’s family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- 1808, John Dryden, Walter Scott (editor), The Works of John Dryden:
- Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
- 1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!:
- Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
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1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132:
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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.
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- Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- 1808, John Dryden, Walter Scott (editor), The Works of John Dryden:
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- 2004, Jean Harrison, Home:
- 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.
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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.
- 2004, Jean Harrison, Home:
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III:
- He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home; […]
- 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III:
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
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It’s what you bring into a house that makes it a home
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- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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a home for outcasts
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a home for the blind
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a veterans’ home
- Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
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- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
- […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one’s family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:
- 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.
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- 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.
- 1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home:
- 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.
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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the home of the pine
- 1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty’s Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets:
- […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r’estor’d, […]
- 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.:
- 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.
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- 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.
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- A focus point.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
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- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site’s homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
Synonyms[edit]
- (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
- ((baseball) home plate): home base
Derived terms[edit]
- a house is not a home
- a man’s home is his castle
- America at home
- an Englishman’s home is his castle
- at home
- at-home card
- at-homeness
- away from home
- back home
- boys’ home
- bring home
- bring home the bacon
- broken home
- cage home
- care home
- charity begins at home
- children’s home
- Chinese home run
- close to home
- come home by weeping cross
- come home to roost
- cottage home
- detention home
- direct-to-home
- don’t try this at home
- down home
- down-home
- drive home
- eat someone out of house and home
- eco-home
- eventide home
- fall home
- family home evening
- far-from-home
- forever home
- foster home
- from home
- funeral home
- ghost home
- give someone a lift home
- go big or go home
- go hard or go home
- group home
- hammer home
- harvest home
- have a safe trip home
- hearth and home
- hit a home run
- hit home
- hit too close to home
- holiday home
- home advantage
- home appliance
- home automation
- home care
- home carer
- home child
- home cinema
- home computer
- home console
- home country
- home county
- home delivery
- Home Depot
- home directory
- home duty
- home ec
- home education
- home equity
- home field advantage
- home fries
- home from home
- home fry
- home game
- home haunt
- home help
- home ice
- home improvement
- home in
- home inspection
- home inspector
- home invader
- home invasion
- home is where the heart is
- home is where you hang your hat
- home key
- home language
- home loan
- home movie
- home nation
- home note
- home office
- home open
- home ownership
- home page
- home phone
- home planet
- home plate
- home row
- home rule class
- home run
- home school
- home schooler
- home screen
- Home Secretary
- home set
- home shopping
- home side
- home sign
- home skillet
- home slice
- home stand
- home state
- home straight
- home stretch
- home study
- home sweet home
- home teach
- home teacher
- home teaching
- home team
- home town
- home training
- home wrecker
- home zone
- home-along
- home-and-away
- home-and-home
- home-brewn
- home-grown
- home-made
- home-making
- home-schooler
- home-set
- home-sewn
- home-sickness
- home-speaking
- homebuilder
- homecation
- homely
- homeness
- homeowner
- homeownership
- homesewn
- homesickness
- hometown
- homie
- homish
- in-home
- it takes a heap o’ livin’ to make a house a home
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
- it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
- keep the home fires burning
- leave home
- Little League home run
- long home
- make oneself at home
- make yourself at home
- make yourselves at home
- mobile home
- mobile home park
- motor home
- motor-home
- Mountain Home
- not at home to
- not worth writing home about
- nothing to write home about
- nursing home
- old folks’ home
- old people’s home
- out of house and home
- parental home
- pay home
- phone home
- press home
- ram home
- remand home
- rest home
- retirement home
- romp home
- second home
- show home
- smart home
- something to write home about
- spec home
- starter home
- stately home
- stay at home
- stay-at-home
- stay-at-home dad
- stay-at-home order
- Sweet Home
- sweet home Alabama
- take one’s ball and go home
- take one’s bat and ball and go home
- take one’s football and go home
- take-home
- take-home pay
- take-home vehicle
- the chickens come home to roost
- the lights are on but no one’s home
- the lights are on but nobody’s home
- there’s no place like home
- ’til the cows come home
- till the cow come home
- to write home about
- tract home
- tumble home
- until the cows come home
- vacation home
- welcome home
- welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
- when it’s at home
- workhome
- working from home
- you can’t go home again
Translations[edit]
house or structure in which someone lives
- Afrikaans: huis (af)
- Albanian: banesë (sq), shtëpi (sq)
- Amharic: ሆኦመእ (hoʾomäʾ), ቤት (bet)
- Arabic: بَيْت (ar) m (bayt)
- Egyptian Arabic: بيت (ar) m
- Hijazi Arabic: بيت m (bēt)
- Aragonese: fogar m
- Armenian: տուն (hy) (tun)
- Assamese: ঘৰ (ghor)
- Asturian: casa (ast) f
- Aymara: utjäwi
- Azerbaijani: ev (az)
- Bakhtiari: حونه
- Baluchi: لوگ, گس (gis)
- Bashkir: өй (öy)
- Basque: etxe (eu)
- Bavarian: Ham
- Belarusian: дом (be) m (dom)
- Bengali: বাড়ি (bn) (baṛi), বাসা (bn) (baśa), গৃহ (bn) (griho), ঘর (bn) (ghor)
- Breton: kêr f
- Bulgarian: дом (bg) m (dom)
- Burmese: နေအိမ် (my) (neim), အိမ် (my) (im)
- Catalan: llar (ca) m, casa (ca) f
- Central Sierra Miwok: ˀu·ču-
- Chamicuro: ajkochi
- Chamorro: please add this translation if you can
- Cherokee: ᎣᏪᏅᏒ (owenvsv)
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chickasaw: chokka’
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 屋企 (yue) (uk1 kei5-2), 家 (yue) (gaa1)
- Dungan: җя (ži͡a)
- Hakka: 屋下 (vuk-hâ / vuk-khâ / luk-khâ)
- Mandarin: 家 (zh) (jiā)
- Min Bei: 厝 (chio̤̿)
- Min Dong: 厝 (chió)
- Min Nan: 厝 (zh-min-nan) (chhù), 兜 (zh-min-nan) (tau / to͘)
- Wu: 屋裡/屋里 (oq li)
- Chiricahua: kuugha̧
- Choctaw: chuka
- Crimean Tatar: ev
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Danish: hjem (da) n
- Dhivehi: ގެ (ge)
- Dutch: huis (nl) m, heem (nl) n, thuis (nl) n
- Esperanto: hejmo (eo), loĝejo (eo)
- Estonian: kodu (et)
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: heim n
- Finnish: koti (fi), (colloquial) hima (fi), (colloquial) kotitalo
- French: foyer (fr) m, domicile (fr) m, chez soi (fr)
- Friulian: cjase f
- Galician: fogar (gl) m, lar (gl) m
- Georgian: სახლი (ka) (saxli)
- German: Heim (de) n, Zuhause (de) n, Wohnung (de) f
- Alemannic German: a
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 f (haims)
- Greek: σπίτι (el) n (spíti), σπιτικό (el) n (spitikó)
- Ancient: οἴκημα n (oíkēma), οἴκησις f (oíkēsis)
- Gujarati: ઘર (gu) (ghar)
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: kauhale, home
- Hebrew: בַּיִת (he) m (báyit)
- Higaonon: balay
- Hindi: घर (hi) m (ghar), निवास (hi) (nivās), मकान (hi) (makān), आश्रय (hi) (āśray)
- Hungarian: otthon (hu)
- Icelandic: heimili (is) n, (away from home) heiman, (away from home) að heiman, (home) heim (is), (at home) heima (is)
- Ido: hemo (io)
- Igbo: ụlọ
- Indonesian: rumah (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: baile (ga) m
- Italian: casa (it) f, focolare (it) m
- Japanese: 家 (ja) (いえ, ie, うち, uchi), お住まい (おすまい, osumai), お宅 (おたく, otaku) (honorific)
- Jarawa: čaɖɖaː
- Kannada: ಮನೆ (kn) (mane)
- Kaqchikel: jay
- Karachay-Balkar: юй sg (üy)
- Karelian: kodi
- Kazakh: үй (kk) (üi)
- Khmer: ផ្ទះ (km) (phtĕəh)
- Komi-Permyak: горт (gort)
- Korean: 집 (ko) (jip), 댁 (ko) (daek) (honorific)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ماڵ (ckb) (mall)
- Laki: ماڵ (ku) (mall)
- Northern Kurdish: mal (ku)
- Southern Kurdish: ماڵ (ku) (mall)
- Kyrgyz: үй (ky) (üy)
- Lao: ບ້ານ (bān)
- Latin: domus (la) f, domicilium (la) n
- Latvian: nams m
- Lithuanian: namas (lt) m
- Livonian: kuod
- Luganda: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: Heem n, Doheem (lb) n
- Macedonian: дом m (dom)
- Malay: rumah (ms)
- Malayalam: വീട് (ml) (vīṭŭ)
- Maltese: dar (mt)
- Maori: kāinga
- Marathi: घर n (ghar)
- Middle English: hom
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: гэр (mn) (ger)
- Mòcheno: hoa’m n
- Nahuatl: chantli (nah)
- Navajo: hooghan
- Nepali: घर (ne) (ghar)
- Ngarrindjeri: whalie
- Northern Sami: ruoktu
- Norwegian: hjem (no) n, heim (no) n
- Old Bengali: ঘর (ghara)
- Old French: maison f, maisun f
- Oriya: ଘର (or) (ghôrô)
- Pashto: کور (ps) m (kor), کوټه (ps) f (kotta)
- Pela: ja̠m⁵⁵
- Persian: خانه (fa) (xâne)
- Plautdietsch: Heim n
- Polish: dom (pl) m
- Portuguese: lar (pt) m, casa (pt) f
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਘਰ (ghar)
- Shahmukhi: گھر (pnb) (ghar)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rapa Nui: hare
- Romagnol: ca f
- Romanian: casă (ro) f
- Romansch: chasa m (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), casa f (Sursilvan), tgea f, tgeasa f (Sutsilvan), tgesa f (Surmiran), chesa f (Puter)
- Russian: дом (ru) m (dom)
- Samoan: ‘āiga
- Sanskrit: गृह (sa) m or n (gṛhá), गेह (sa) m or n (gehá)
- Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dachaigh f, taigh (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̏м (sh) m
- Roman: dȍm (sh) m
- Sinhalese: ගෙදර (si) (gedara)
- Slovak: domov (sk) m
- Slovene: dóm (sl) m, domōv (sl) m
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sotho: lehae
- Spanish: hogar (es) m
- Swedish: hem (sv) n, hus (sv) n, boning (sv) c
- Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠠꠤ (baṛi), ꠊꠞ (gór)
- Tagalog: bahay (tl), tahanan
- Tajik: хона (tg) (xona)
- Tamil: வீடு (ta) (vīṭu), ஆம் (ta) (ām)
- Tatar: өй (tt) (öy)
- Telugu: ఇల్లు (te) (illu)
- Thai: บ้าน (th) (bâan)
- Tibetan: ཁྱིམ (khyim)
- Tsonga: kaya (ts)
- Tulu: ಇಲ್ಲು (illu)
- Turkish: ev (tr)
- Turkmen: öý
- Ukrainian: дім m (dim), ха́та (uk) f (xáta)
- Urdu: گھر m (ghar), مکان m (makān)
- Uyghur: ئۆي (ug) (öy)
- Uzbek: uy (uz)
- Venda: nnḓu
- Vietnamese: nhà (vi), (birthplace) nơi sinh, chỗ ở (vi), gia đình (vi), nhà ở (vi), nhà cửa (vi)
- Vilamovian: haom n
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: cartref (cy) m
- Western Apache: gowąh, kowa̜, kuughá
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: ikhaya
- Yiddish: היים n (heym)
- Yoruba: ilé
- Zhuang: ranz
- Zulu: ikhaya (zu)
someone’s native land
- Arabic: وَطَن (ar) m (waṭan)
- Armenian: հայրենիք (hy) (hayrenikʿ)
- Asturian: casa (ast) f
- Belarusian: радзі́ма (be) f (radzíma)
- Bulgarian: роди́на (bg) f (rodína)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 家鄉/家乡 (gaa1 hoeng1)
- Mandarin: 故鄉/故乡 (zh) (gùxiāng), 家鄉/家乡 (zh) (jiāxiāng), (homeland) 祖國/祖国 (zh) (zǔguó)
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Danish: hjemland (da) n
- Dutch: moederland (nl) n
- Estonian: kodumaa (et), isamaa
- Finnish: kotimaa (fi), kotiseutu (fi)
- French: patrie (fr) f
- German: Heimat (de) f
- Greek: πατρίδα (el) f (patrída), γενέτειρα (el) f (genéteira)
- Ancient Greek: οἶκος m (oîkos)
- Hebrew: בַּיִת (he) m (báyit)
- Hungarian: szülőföld (hu)
- Italian: patria (it) f, paese (it) m
- Japanese: 故郷 (ja) (こきょう, kokyō), (homeland) 母国 (ja) (ぼこく, bokoku)
- Kannada: ಮಾತೃಭೂಮಿ (kn) (mātṛbhūmi), ಪಿತೃಭೂಮಿ (pitṛbhūmi)
- Karachay-Balkar: джурт (curt)
- Korean: 고향(故鄕) (ko) (gohyang)
- Latin: domus (la) f, focus m, penates m pl
- Latvian: tēvija f
- Luxembourgish: Heemecht f
- Macedonian: татковина f (tatkovina), родина f (rodina)
- Maltese: pajjiż
- Maori: ipukarea
- Northern Sami: ruovttueana
- Norwegian: hjemland
- Persian: میهن (fa) (mihan)
- Polish: ojczyzna (pl) f, macierz (pl) f
- Portuguese: lar (pt) m, terra (pt) f
- Romansch: patria f pl
- Russian: ро́дина (ru) f (ródina)
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dachaigh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̀мовина f
- Roman: dòmovina (sh) f
- Slovene: dóm (sl) m, domovína (sl) f
- Spanish: patria (es) f
- Swedish: hemland (sv) n
- Telugu: పూర్వీకము (pūrvīkamu)
- Turkish: memleket (tr), vatan (tr), yurt (tr)
- Ukrainian: ба́тьківщина (uk) f (bátʹkivščyna), батьківщи́на (uk) f (batʹkivščýna), домі́вка (uk) f (domívka)
- Urdu: زمین (ur) f (zamīn)
- Uyghur: يۇرت (yurt), ۋەتەن (weten)
- Vietnamese: quê (vi), quê hương (vi), tổ quốc (vi)
- Yoruba: ìlú
childhood or parental home
- Afrikaans: ouerhuis
- Armenian: օջախ (hy) (ōǰax)
- Catalan: casa (ca) f
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Dutch: thuis (nl) n
- Estonian: sünnikodu
- Finnish: lapsuudenkoti (fi)
- German: Elternhaus (de) n, Nest (de) n, Zuhause (de) n
- Greek: πατρικό (el) n (patrikó)
- Hebrew: בַּיִת (he) m (báyit)
- Hindi: जन्मभूमि (hi) (janmabhūmi)
- Hungarian: otthon (hu)
- Japanese: 故郷 (ja) (こきょう, kokyō), 実家 (ja) (じっか, jikka)
- Karachay-Balkar: ата юй (ata üy)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ماڵ (ckb) (mall)
- Northern Kurdish: mal (ku)
- Latin: domus (la) f, focus m, penates m pl
- Luxembourgish: Elterenhaus n, Heemechtshaus n
- Macedonian: дом m (dom)
- Maori: haukāinga
- Nahuatl: chantli (nah)
- Northern Sami: mánnávuođaruoktu
- Norwegian: barndomshjem
- Persian: خانه (fa) (xâne)
- Portuguese: lar (pt) m, casa (pt) f
- Russian: дом (ru) m (dom)
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dachaigh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̏м (sh) m
- Roman: dȍm (sh) m
- Slovene: dóm (sl) m
- Spanish: hogar (es) m
- Swedish: barndomshem (sv) n or n pl
- Thai: บ้าน (th) (bâan)
- Turkish: baba evi (tr), yuva (tr)
- Ukrainian: домівка (uk) f (domivka)
- Uyghur: خانە (xane), ئېغىز (ug) (ëghiz)
- Vietnamese: nhà (vi), quê hương (vi), nơi chôn (literally “place of burial”)
place of the affections
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Dutch: thuis (nl)
- Finnish: koti (fi)
- Karachay-Balkar: юй (üy)
- Macedonian: дом m (dom)
- Norwegian: hjemme (no)
- Portuguese: lar (pt) m
- Russian: дом (ru) m (dom)
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dachaigh f
- Serbo-Croatian: dom (sh) m
- Slovene: dóm (sl) m
- Vietnamese: nhà (vi)
habitat
- Armenian: կացարան (hy) (kacʿaran)
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Dutch: habitat (nl)
- Finnish: elinpaikka, kotipaikka (fi)
- German: Heimat (de) f
- Greek: κατοικία (el) f (katoikía), περιβάλλον (el) n (perivállon)
- Hebrew: בַּיִת (he) m (báyit), מָקוֹם (he) m (makóm)
- Italian: habitat (it) m, dimora (it) f
- Japanese: 生息地 (せいそくち, seisokuchi)
- Karachay-Balkar: джурт (curt)
- Latin: domus (la) f, focus m, penates m pl
- Macedonian: дом m (dom), живеалиште (mk) n (živealište)
- Maltese: dar (mt), abitat
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjem (no) n, hjemsted n
- Portuguese: lar (pt) m
- Scots: hame
- Serbo-Croatian: dom (sh) m
- Spanish: hogar (es) m
- Swedish: hem (sv) n or n pl
- Telugu: నివాసం (te) (nivāsaṁ)
- Thai: บ้าน (th) (bâan)
- Turkish: memleket (tr), vatan (tr)
place of refuge or rest
- Armenian: կացարան (hy) (kacʿaran)
- Bavarian: Ham
- Catalan: asil (ca) m, llar (ca)
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Dutch: tehuis (nl) n
- Finnish: koti (fi)
- German: Heim (de) n, Ruhestätte (de) f
- Greek: άσυλο (el) n (ásylo)
- Karachay-Balkar: уя (uya)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ماڵ (ckb) (mall)
- Northern Kurdish: mal (ku)
- Latin: domus (la) f, aedes (la) f pl, tēctum (la) n, aedificium (la) n
- Macedonian: прибежиште n (pribežište)
- Middle English: hom
- Nahuatl: chantli (nah)
- Norwegian: hjem (no)
- Portuguese: lar (pt) m
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dachaigh f
- Slovene: dóm (sl) m
- Spanish: asilo (es) m, hogar (es) m, techo (es) m
- Telugu: శరణాలయము (śaraṇālayamu)
- Turkish: yuva (tr)
- Vietnamese: (home for outcasts, handicapped, elderly, etc.) (please verify) viện (vi) (literally “institution”), (home for orphans) (please verify) trại mồ côi
goal (sports)
- Catalan: meta (ca) f
- Czech: domov (cs) m
- Italian: meta (it) f, traguardo (it) m
- Scots: hame
- Spanish: meta (es) f, portería f, puerta (es) f, arco (es) m (Latin America)
- Vietnamese: đích (vi)
- Yoruba: ilé
Translations to be checked
- Afrikaans: (please verify) tuiste (af)
- Esperanto: (please verify) hejmo (eo)
- Interlingua: (please verify) casa (ia)
- Old English: (please verify) eard (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), (please verify) hām (1)
- Romanian: (please verify) casă (ro) f
- Rwanda-Rundi: (please verify) urugo
- Thai: (please verify) บ้าน (th) (bâan), (please verify) ที่อยู่ (th) (tee-yoo)
- Turkish: (please verify) ev (tr), (please verify) yurt (tr)
- Welsh: (please verify) tref (cy) f
Verb[edit]
home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)
- (of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.
- The dog homed.
- (always with «in on», transitive) To seek or aim for something.
- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist:
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Translations[edit]
to home («in on»)
- Danish: sigte ind på
- Dutch: mikken (nl)
- Finnish: hakeutua (fi)
- German: anpeilen (de), zielen (de)
- Italian: centrare (it)
- Macedonian: се наведува (se naveduva)
- Russian: наводи́ться (ru) impf (navodítʹsja), навести́сь (ru) pf (navestísʹ)
- Slovene: nameriti
- Swedish: sikta in på (sv)
- Telugu: ఇంటికి (te) (iṇṭiki)
Adjective[edit]
home (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign [from 13th c.]
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home manufactures
- home comforts
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- (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 91:
- 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 […].
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 91:
- (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]
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the home end, home advantage, home supporters
- Antonyms: away, road, visitor
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Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from home (adjective)
Adverb[edit]
home (not comparable)
- To one’s home
- To one’s place of residence or one’s customary or official location
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come home
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carry someone home
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- 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.»
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1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
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Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln’s Inn.
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- To one’s place of birth
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
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She drove the nail home
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ram a cartridge home
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c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
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Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]
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- 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda
- 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.
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- (Internet) To the home page
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Click here to go home.
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- To one’s place of residence or one’s customary or official location
- At or in one’s place of residence or one’s customary or official location; at home
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Everyone’s gone to watch the game; there’s nobody home.
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I’m home!
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- 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.
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1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
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How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]
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1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
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Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!
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- 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
- (UK, soccer) 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.
- 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
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sails sheeted home
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Usage notes[edit]
- 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (to home): homeward
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from the adverb home
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Translations[edit]
at home
- Bavarian: dahoam
- Belarusian: до́ма (dóma)
- Bulgarian: у дома (u doma)
- Catalan: a casa
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 在家里 (zài jiālǐ)
- Czech: doma (cs)
- Danish: hjemme (da)
- Dutch: thuis (nl)
- Elfdalian: iema
- Faroese: heima (fo)
- Finnish: kotona (fi)
- French: à la maison (fr)
- German: daheim (de), zu Hause (de), zuhause (de)
- Greek: στο σπίτι (sto spíti)
- Ancient: οἴκοι (oíkoi)
- Hindi: घर पर (ghar par)
- Hungarian: otthon (hu), itthon
- Icelandic: heima (is)
- Ido: heme (io), enheme (io)
- Irish: sa bhaile
- Italian: a casa
- Japanese: 家に (ja) (うちに, uchi ni), 家で (ja) (うちで, uchi de)
- Korean: 집에 (jib-e)
- Latin: domi (la)
- Macedonian: дома (doma)
- Navajo: hooghandi
- Northern Sami: ruovttus
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjemme (no), heime (no)
- Nynorsk: heime (nn)
- Pennsylvania German: deheem
- Persian: منزل (fa) (manzel), در منزل (dar manzel)
- Polish: w domu
- Portuguese: em casa
- Romani: khere
- Romanian: acasă (ro)
- Romansch: a chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), a casa (Sursilvan), a tgea, a tgeasa (Sutsilvan), a tgesa (Surmiran), a chesa (Puter)
- Russian: до́ма (ru) (dóma)
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh
- Sinhalese: ගෙදර (si) (gedara)
- Slovak: doma (sk)
- Slovene: domá (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: doma
- Spanish: en casa
- Swedish: hemma (sv)
- Telugu: ఇంటి వద్ద (iṇṭi vadda)
- Turkish: evde (tr)
- Ukrainian: вдо́ма (uk) (vdóma)
- Urdu: گھر پر (ghar par)
- Uyghur: ئۆيدە (öyde)
- Welsh: gartref, gartre
homewards
- Armenian: տուն (hy) (tun)
- Asturian: a casa
- Belarusian: дадо́му (dadómu)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: d’ar gêr
- Catalan: a casa
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 在家 (zh) (zài jiā)
- Czech: domů (cs)
- Danish: hjem (da), hjemad
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: naar huis
- Estonian: koju
- Faroese: heim
- Finnish: kotiin (fi)
- French: à la maison (fr)
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: a casa
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: nach Hause (de), nachhause (de), heimwärts (de), heim (de)
- Alemannic German: häi
- Greek: προς το σπίτι (pros to spíti)
- Ancient: οἴκαδε (oíkade), (Epic) δόμονδε (dómonde)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: i kauhale
- Hebrew: הביתה (he) (habáyta)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: haza (hu)
- Icelandic: heim (is)
- Ido: adheme (io)
- Igbo: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: abhaile
- Italian: a casa
- Japanese: 家へ (ja) (うちへ, uchi e), 家に (ja) (うちに, uchi ni)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: ទៅផ្ទះ (tɨv pteah)
- Korean: 집에 (jib-e), 집으로 (jib-euro)
- Latin: domum (la)
- Macedonian: дома (doma)
- Navajo: hooghangóó
- Northern Sami: ruoktot
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjem (no), heim (no), hjemover, heimover
- Nynorsk: heim, heimover
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Pennsylvania German: heem
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Plautdietsch: nohus
- Polish: do domu
- Portuguese: para casa
- Punjabi: گھردو (ghardo) (Shahmukhi), ਘਰਦੋ (ghardo) (Gurmukhi)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: acasă (ro)
- Romansch: a chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), a casa (Sursilvan), a tgea, a tgeasa (Sutsilvan), a tgesa (Surmiran), a chesa (Puter)
- Russian: домо́й (ru) (domój)
- Rwanda-Rundi: please add this translation if you can
- Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
- Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
- Scots: hame
- Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кући
- Roman: kući (sh)
- Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: ගෙදර දෙසට (gedara desaṭa)
- Slovak: domov (sk)
- Slovene: domôv (sl)
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: a casa
- Swedish: hem (sv), hemåt (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: ఇంటి వైపు (iṇṭi vaipu)
- Turkish: eve (tr), eve doğru
- Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: додо́му (dodómu)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: adref (cy), adre
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: אַהײם (aheym)
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
References[edit]
- home at OneLook Dictionary Search
- home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “home”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading[edit]
- home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
- Mohe, hemo-
Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
- man
- L’home equí ye’l fíu la María ― This man here is María’s son
- person
- husband
Synonyms[edit]
- (person): persona
- (husband): esposu, maríu
Derived terms[edit]
- home del sacu
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Catalan home~hom, from Latin hominem, homō (“human being”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.mə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.me/
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes or hòmens)
- man
- husband
- Synonyms: cònjuge, espòs, marit
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- home llop
- homenet
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- prohom
Further reading[edit]
- “home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Numeral[edit]
ho̊me
- (Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From homo.
Adverb[edit]
home
- humanly; in a human fashion
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *homeh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈhomeˣ/, [ˈho̞me̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -ome
- Syllabification(key): ho‧me
Noun[edit]
home
- mildew, mold
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Tämä leipä on homeessa.
- This bread is moldy
- (literally, “This bread is in mold.”)
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Declension[edit]
Inflection of home (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | home | homeet | |
genitive | homeen | homeiden homeitten |
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partitive | hometta | homeita | |
illative | homeeseen | homeisiin homeihin |
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | home | homeet | |
accusative | nom. | home | homeet |
gen. | homeen | ||
genitive | homeen | homeiden homeitten |
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partitive | hometta | homeita | |
inessive | homeessa | homeissa | |
elative | homeesta | homeista | |
illative | homeeseen | homeisiin homeihin |
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adessive | homeella | homeilla | |
ablative | homeelta | homeilta | |
allative | homeelle | homeille | |
essive | homeena | homeina | |
translative | homeeksi | homeiksi | |
instructive | — | homein | |
abessive | homeetta | homeitta | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Anagrams[edit]
- hemo
Galician[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- homem (Reintegrationist)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): [ˈɔ.mɪ]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
- human; person
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Unha sebe tres anos dura; un can tres sebes; unha mula tres cans; un home tres mulas (proverb)
- A hedge lasts three years; a dog three hedges; a mule three dogs; a person three mules
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- mankind
- O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969
- man (adult male)
- Home casado muller é (proverb) ― The Married man is a woman
- male human
- Home pequeno fol de veleno (proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom
- husband
- Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim
Derived terms[edit]
- homiño (“little man”)
- lobishome (“werewolf”)
- ricohome (“magnate”)
Interjection[edit]
home
- man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance)
- -Es o campión do mundo? Contento? —Home!… ― -You’re the champion of the world? Are you happy? —Man!… [Of course I’m happy, what kind of question is this?]
Derived terms[edit]
- ho
See also[edit]
- persoa
References[edit]
- “home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI — ILGA 2006–2022.
- “home” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez — Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI — ILGA 2006–2013.
- “home” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “home” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Ingrian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *homeh. Cognates include Finnish home and Veps homeh.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
- Rhymes: -ome
- Hyphenation: ho‧me
Noun[edit]
home
- mould
Declension[edit]
Declension of home (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | home | hommeet |
genitive | hommeen | hommein |
partitive | hometta | hommeita |
illative | hommeesse | hommeisse |
inessive | hommees | hommeis |
elative | hommeest | hommeist |
allative | hommeelle | hommeille |
adessive | hommeel | hommeil |
ablative | hommeelt | hommeilt |
translative | hommeeks | hommeiks |
essive | hommeenna, hommeen | hommeinna, hommein |
exessive1) | hommeent | hommeint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
References[edit]
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 67
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English home.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈom/, (careful style) /ˈowm/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -om, (careful style) -owm
Noun[edit]
home f (invariable)
- (computing) home (initial position of various computing objects)
References[edit]
- ^ home in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- ^ home video in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams[edit]
- ohmè
Leonese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
- man
Further reading[edit]
- AEDLL
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
home (plural homes)
- Alternative form of hom (“home”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
home
- Alternative form of whom (“whom”)
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
home
- Alternative form of hem (“them”)
Etymology 4[edit]
Noun[edit]
home (plural homes)
- Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure; meadow”)
Etymology 5[edit]
Noun[edit]
home
- Alternative form of hame (“hame (part of a harness)”)
Etymology 6[edit]
Verb[edit]
home (third-person singular simple present hometh, present participle homende, homynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle homed)
- Alternative form of hummen (“to hum”)
Mirandese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
- man
- husband
Antonyms[edit]
- mulhier
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Verb[edit]
home (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative home/hom)
- alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- see hom for alternative nominative singular forms
- homme
- honme
- hume
- onme
- ume
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *(h)omne, Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈu.mə/
Noun[edit]
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
(oblique case)
- man (male adult human being)
- man (mankind; Homo sapiens)
-
circa 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 476:
-
O HOM de sancte vie, entent que signefie
- O MAN of sacred life, listen to what this means
-
-
- vassal; manservant
Coordinate terms[edit]
- fame (“woman”)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: homme
- French: homme, Homme
- Haitian Creole: lòm
- Karipúna Creole French: uóm
- Louisiana Creole: n’homme
- Saint Dominican Creole French: n’homme
- Haitian Creole: nonm
- →⇒ English: en homme
- French: on, l’on
- → Esperanto: oni
- → Ido: onu
- → Interlingue: on
- → Esperanto: oni
- French: homme, Homme
- Norman: houme (France), haomme (Guernsey), houmme (Jersey)
- Picard: onme
- Walloon: ome
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
- home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)
Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m
- Alternative form of ome
Old Occitan[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
- Alternative form of ome
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Denasalization of homem.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈõ.mi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈo.me/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.m(ɨ)/
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of homem
home
one’s own house or residence; abode, dwelling, habitation; domicile; asylum: Home is where the heart is.
Not to be confused with:
hone – a whetstone for sharpening cutting tools; to make more acute or effective; perfect: He honed his skills at his father’s side.
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree
home
(hōm)
n.
1. A place where one lives; a residence.
2. The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
3. A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
4.
a. An environment offering security and happiness.
b. A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.
5. The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period.
6. The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
7. The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
8. A headquarters; a home base.
9.
a. Baseball Home plate.
b. Games Home base.
10. An institution where people are cared for: a home for the elderly.
11. 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.
adj.
1.
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.
2. Of, relating to, or being a place of origin or headquarters: the home office.
3. Sports Relating to a team’s sponsoring institution or to the place where it is franchised: a home game; the home field advantage.
4. 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 ‘.
adv.
1. At, to, or toward the direction of home: going home for lunch.
2. On or into the point at which something is directed: The arrow struck home.
3. To the center or heart of something; deeply: Your comments really hit home.
v. homed, hom·ing, homes
v.intr.
To go or return to one’s residence or base of operations.
v.tr.
1. To guide (a missile or aircraft) to a target.
2. Chiefly British
a. To arrange to have (an animal) placed in a home.
b. To take (an animal) into one’s home.
Phrasal Verb:
home in
1. To move or advance toward a target or goal: The missile homed in on the target.
2. To focus the attention or make progress achieving an objective: The investigators were homing in on the truth.
Idioms:
at home
1. Available to receive visitors: at home on Thursdays.
2. Comfortable and relaxed; at ease: at home in diplomatic circles.
3. Feeling an easy competence and familiarity: at home in French.
home free
Out of jeopardy; assured of success: We had our hardest exams first and were home free after that.
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home
(həʊm)
n
1. the place or a place where one lives: have you no home to go to?.
2. a house or other dwelling
3. a family or other group living in a house or other place
4. a person’s country, city, etc, esp viewed as a birthplace, a residence during one’s early years, or a place dear to one
5. (Environmental Science) the environment or habitat of a person or animal
6. the place where something is invented, founded, or developed: the US is the home of baseball.
7. (Social Welfare)
a. a building or organization set up to care for orphans, the aged, etc
8. (Team Sports, other than specified) sport one’s own ground: the match is at home.
9. (Team Sports, other than specified)
a. the objective towards which a player strives in certain sports
b. an area where a player is safe from attack
10. (Lacrosse) lacrosse
a. one of two positions of play nearest the opponents’ goal
b. a player assigned to such a position: inside home.
11. (Baseball) baseball another name for home plate
12. informal obsolete NZ Britain, esp England
13. a home from home a place other than one’s own home where one can be at ease
14. at home
a. in one’s own home or country
b. at ease, as if at one’s own home
c. giving an informal party at one’s own home
d. Brit such a party
15. at home in at home on at home with familiar or conversant with
16. home and dry informal Brit definitely safe or successful: we will not be home and dry until the votes have been counted. Austral. and NZ equivalent: home and hosed
17. near home concerning one deeply
adj (usually prenominal)
18. of, relating to, or involving one’s home, country, etc; domestic
19. (of an activity) done in one’s house: home taping.
20. effective or deadly: a home thrust.
21. (Team Sports, other than specified) sport relating to one’s own ground: a home game.
22. US central; principal: the company’s home office.
adv
23. to or at home: I’ll be home tomorrow.
24. to or on the point
25. to the fullest extent: hammer the nail home.
26. (Nautical Terms) (of nautical gear) into or in the best or proper position: the boom is home.
27. bring home to
a. to make clear to
b. to place the blame on
28. (Nautical Terms) come home nautical (of an anchor) to fail to hold
29. come home to to become absolutely clear to
30. nothing to write home about informal to be of no particular interest: the film was nothing to write home about.
vb
31. (Zoology) (intr) (of birds and other animals) to return home accurately from a distance
32. (Navigation) (often foll by: on or onto) to direct or be directed onto a point or target, esp by automatic navigational aids
33. to send or go home
34. to furnish with or have a home
35. (intr; often foll by in or in on) to be directed towards a goal, target, etc
[Old English hām; related to Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims, Old High German heim, Dutch heem, Greek kōmi village]
ˈhomeˌlike adj
Home
(hjuːm)
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home
(hoʊm)
n., adj., adv., v. homed, hom•ing. n.
1. a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
2. the place in which one’s domestic affections are centered.
3. an institution for people with special needs: a nursing home.
4. the dwelling place or retreat of an animal.
5. the place or region where something is native or most common.
6. any place of residence or refuge.
7. a person’s own country.
8. headquarters: The company’s home is in Detroit.
9. (in games) the destination or goal.
adj.
11. of or pertaining to one’s home or country; domestic: home products.
12. principal: the corporation’s home office.
13. reaching the mark aimed at: a home thrust.
14. played in a team’s own area.
adv.
15. to, toward, or at home.
16. deep: The truth struck home.
17. to the point aimed at: He drove the nail home.
v.i.
18. to go or return home.
19. to proceed toward a specified target (often fol. by in on): The missile homed in on the target.
v.t.
20. to send to or provide with a home.
21. to direct, as toward an airport or target.
Idioms:
1. at home,
a. in one’s own house or place of residence.
b. prepared to receive social visits.
c. comfortable; at ease: Make yourself at home.
d. proficient: a scholar at home in the classics.
2. bring home, to make clearly evident.
3. home free, in a position assured of success or out of jeopardy.
[before 900; Middle English hom, Old English hām (n. and adv.) village, house, c. Old Saxon hēm, Old High German heim, Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims]
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home
Your home is the place where you live and feel that you belong. Home is most commonly used to refer to a person’s house, but it can also be used to refer to a town, a region, or a country.
His father often worked away from home.
Dublin will always be home to me.
Don’t refer to a particular person’s home as ‘the home’. Say his home, her home, or just home.
Victoria is selling her home in Ireland.
Their children have left home.
Be Careful!
You never use ‘to’ immediately in front of home. Don’t say, for example, ‘We went to home‘. Say ‘We went home‘.
Come home with me.
The police officer escorted her home.
If you remain in your house rather than going out somewhere, British speakers say that you stay at home. American speakers say that you stay home.
Oh, we’ll just have to stay at home for the weekend.
What was Cindy supposed to do? Stay home all day and dust the house?
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home
Past participle: homed
Gerund: homing
Imperative |
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home |
home |
Present |
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I home |
you home |
he/she/it homes |
we home |
you home |
they home |
Preterite |
---|
I homed |
you homed |
he/she/it homed |
we homed |
you homed |
they homed |
Present Continuous |
---|
I am homing |
you are homing |
he/she/it is homing |
we are homing |
you are homing |
they are homing |
Present Perfect |
---|
I have homed |
you have homed |
he/she/it has homed |
we have homed |
you have homed |
they have homed |
Past Continuous |
---|
I was homing |
you were homing |
he/she/it was homing |
we were homing |
you were homing |
they were homing |
Past Perfect |
---|
I had homed |
you had homed |
he/she/it had homed |
we had homed |
you had homed |
they had homed |
Future |
---|
I will home |
you will home |
he/she/it will home |
we will home |
you will home |
they will home |
Future Perfect |
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I will have homed |
you will have homed |
he/she/it will have homed |
we will have homed |
you will have homed |
they will have homed |
Future Continuous |
---|
I will be homing |
you will be homing |
he/she/it will be homing |
we will be homing |
you will be homing |
they will be homing |
Present Perfect Continuous |
---|
I have been homing |
you have been homing |
he/she/it has been homing |
we have been homing |
you have been homing |
they have been homing |
Future Perfect Continuous |
---|
I will have been homing |
you will have been homing |
he/she/it will have been homing |
we will have been homing |
you will have been homing |
they will have been homing |
Past Perfect Continuous |
---|
I had been homing |
you had been homing |
he/she/it had been homing |
we had been homing |
you had been homing |
they had been homing |
Conditional |
---|
I would home |
you would home |
he/she/it would home |
we would home |
you would home |
they would home |
Past Conditional |
---|
I would have homed |
you would have homed |
he/she/it would have homed |
we would have homed |
you would have homed |
they would have homed |
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun | 1. | home — 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?»
place abode, residence — any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; «a person can have several residences» home away from home, home from home — a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home |
2. | home — housing that someone is living in; «he built a modest dwelling near the pond»; «they raise money to provide homes for the homeless»
dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, abode, domicile bathroom, bath — a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, chamber — a room used primarily for sleeping cliff dwelling — a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff; «the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States» condo, condominium — one of the dwelling units in a condominium den — a room that is comfortable and secluded dinette — a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining dining room, dining-room — a room used for dining dressing room — a room in which you can change clothes family room — a recreation room in a private house fixer-upper — a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price) fireside, hearth — home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; «driven from hearth and home»; «fighting in defense of their firesides» hermitage — the abode of a hermit homestead — dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land house — a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; «he has a house on Cape Cod»; «she felt she had to get out of the house» housing, living accommodations, lodging — structures collectively in which people are housed kitchen — a room equipped for preparing meals lake dwelling, pile dwelling — dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages front room, living room, living-room, sitting room, parlor, parlour — a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax indian lodge, lodge — any of various Native American dwellings messuage — (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household semi-detached house — a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side vacation home — a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation yurt — a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing |
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3. | 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»
location — a point or extent in space |
|
4. | home — (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»
home base, home plate, plate baseball, baseball game — a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; «he played baseball in high school»; «there was a baseball game on every empty lot»; «there was a desire for National League ball in the area»; «play ball!» bag, base — a place that the runner must touch before scoring; «he scrambled to get back to the bag» |
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5. | home — the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
base location — a point or extent in space |
|
6. | home — place where something began and flourished; «the United States is the home of basketball»
origin, source, root, rootage, beginning — the place where something begins, where it springs into being; «the Italian beginning of the Renaissance»; «Jupiter was the origin of the radiation»; «Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River»; «communism’s Russian root» |
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7. | 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»
environment — the totality of surrounding conditions; «he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room» |
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8. | home — 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»
family, household, menage, house broken home — a family in which the parents have separated or divorced conjugal family, nuclear family — a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner extended family — a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives foster family — the family of a fosterling foster home — a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) menage a trois — household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations social unit, unit — an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; «the coach said the offensive unit did a good job»; «after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit» |
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9. | home — an institution where people are cared for; «a home for the elderly»
nursing home, rest home institution — an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated |
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Verb | 1. | home — provide with, or send to, a home
domiciliate, house, put up — provide housing for; «The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town» |
2. | home — return home accurately from a long distance; «homing pigeons»
return — go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; «return to your native land»; «the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean» |
|
Adj. | 1. | home — used of your own ground; «a home game»
athletics, sport — an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition away — used of an opponent’s ground; «an away game» |
2. | home — relating to or being where one lives or where one’s roots are; «my home town» | |
3. | home — inside the country; «the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior»; «the nation’s internal politics»
interior, internal, national domestic — of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; «domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction» |
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Adv. | 1. | 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» |
2. | home — on or to the point aimed at; «the arrow struck home» | |
3. | home — to the fullest extent; to the heart; «drove the nail home»; «drove his point home»; «his comments hit home» |
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home
adjective
3. at ease, relaxed, comfortable, content, at peace We soon felt quite at home.
at home in, on, or with familiar with, experienced in, skilled in, proficient in, conversant with, au fait with, knowledgeable of, well-versed in Graphic artists will feel at home with Photoshop
Quotations
«Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,»
«Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.»
«Home, home, sweet, sweet home!»
«There’s no place like home! There’s no place like home!» [J.H. Payne Clari, the Maid of Milan]
«Home is where the heart is» [Pliny the Elder]
«Home is the place where, when you have to go there,»
«They have to take you in» [Robert Frost The Death of the Hired Man]
Proverbs
«East, west, home’s best»
«An Englishman’s home is his castle»
Types of home
adobe, apartment, back-to-back, barrack, bedsitter, black house (Scot.), board-and-shingle (Caribbean), boarding house, booth, bungalow, bunker, but and ben (Scot.), cabin, caboose (Canad.), camboose, Cape Cod cottage, caravan, castle, chalet, chateau or château, chattel house, consulate, cot or cote (dialect), cottage, cottage flat, crannog, croft, dacha (Russian), deanery, digs, doss house, duplex or duplex apartment (U.S. & Canad.), embassy, farmhouse, flat, flatlet, flophouse, flotel, garret, grange, guest house, hacienda, hall, hogan, hostel, hotel, house, houseboat, hovel, hut, igloo or iglu, inn, lake dwelling, lodge, log cabin, long house, maisonette, manor, manse, mansion, mattamore, mews (informal), mobile home, motel, motor caravan, mud hut, palace, parsonage, penthouse, pied-à-terre, prefab, priory, ranch, rath (Irish), rectory, rest-home, roadhouse, semi, shack, shanty, shooting box, show house, single-end (Scot. dialect), slum, starter home, stately home, studio flat, tavern, tenement, tent, tepee, town house, trailer (U.S. & Canad.), tree house, tupik or tupek (Canad.), vicarage, villa, whare (N.Z.), wigwam
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home
noun
1. A building or shelter where one lives:
Chiefly British: dig (used in plural).
2. The natural environment of an animal or plant:
3. An institution that provides care and shelter:
adjective
1. Of or relating to the family or household:
2. Of, from, or within a country’s own territory:
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Translations
дом
domadomovdomůdůminternát
hjemhjemmehjemme-hjemstedhus
kodu
kotikotonakotiin
घर
domdomovinakući
betalállakhelyotthonotthoniszülőföld
barnaheimili; dvalarheimili, hæliheim, heimaheima-, heimilis-heima-; innanlands-heimavöllur
我が家へ自宅
집집에
domiciliumdomus
absolventų susitikimasabsolventų susitikimo vakarasbenamisbesiilgintis namųbūti pripratusiam
dzimtā vietadzimteneģimenes-iekšējsiekšzemes-
acasăcasă
na miesto určeniatuzemský
domdomadomačdomov
hemhemlandsikta insikta in sig på
ที่บ้านบ้าน
گھر
nhàở nhàquê hươngtổ quốcđích
home
[həʊm]
B. ADV
2. (fig)
to bring sth home to sb → hacerle ver algo a algn
it came home to me → me di cuenta de ello
to drive sth home to drive a point home → subrayar un punto
to drive a nail home → hacer que un clavo entre a fondo
to strike home (= hit target) [shell, bullet] → dar en el blanco; (= go right in) [hammer, nail] → remachar
see also press B7
D. CPD home address N (on form) → domicilio m
my home address → mi dirección particular, las señas de mi casa
home banking N → banco m en casa
home brew N (= beer) → cerveza f casera; (= wine) → vino m casero
home buying N → compra f de vivienda
home comforts NPL → comodidades fpl domésticas
home computer N → ordenador m doméstico
home computing N → informática f doméstica
home cooking N → cocina f casera
the Home Counties NPL (Brit) los condados alrededor de Londres
home country N → patria f, país m de origen
home economics NSING (Scol) → ciencia f del hogar
home fries NPL (US) carne picada frita con patatas y col
home front N → frente m interno
home ground N (Sport) to play at one’s home ground → jugar en casa
to be on home ground (fig) → estar en su terreno or lugar
Home Guard N (Brit) cuerpo de voluntarios para la defensa nacional durante la segunda guerra mundial
home help N (= act) → atención f domiciliaria, ayuda f a domicilio (Brit) (= person) → asistente/a m/f (especialmente los que, a cargo de la seguridad social, ayudan en las tareas domésticas a personas necesitadas)
home improvements NPL → reformas fpl en casa
home industries NPL (Comm) → industrias fpl nacionales
home journey N → viaje m a casa, viaje m de vuelta
home leave N → permiso m para irse a casa
home life N → vida f de familia, vida f doméstica
home loan N → préstamo m para la vivienda
home market N (Comm) → mercado m nacional, mercado m interior
home match N (Sport) → partido m en casa
home movie N → película f hecha por un aficionado
home news NSING (gen) → noticias fpl de casa (Pol) → información f nacional
Home Office N (Brit) → Ministerio m del Interior, Gobernación f (Mex)
home owner N → propietario/a m/f de una casa
home owners → propietarios mpl de viviendas
home ownership N → propiedad f de viviendas
home page N (Internet) → página f digital, home page m
home port N → puerto m de origen
home product N (Comm) → producto m nacional
home rule N → autonomía f
home run N (Baseball) → jonrón m; (= return journey) [of ship, truck] → viaje m de vuelta
home sales NPL → ventas fpl nacionales
Home Secretary N (Brit) → Ministro m del Interior
home shopping N → venta f por correo (TV, Telec) → televenta f
the home side N (Sport) → el equipo de casa, el equipo local
home straight N (Sport) → recta f final
to be in the home straight (fig) → estar en la última recta
home stretch N = home straight the home team N (Sport) → el equipo de casa, el equipo local
home town N → ciudad f natal
home trade N (Comm) → comercio m interior
home truths NPL to tell sb a few home truths → decir cuatro verdades a algn
home victory N (Sport) → victoria f en casa
home visit N → visita f a domicilio
home waters NPL → aguas fpl territoriales
home win N (Sport) → victoria f en casa
home in on VI + PREP
2. (fig) → concentrarse en
HOME COUNTIES
Los Home Counties son los condados que se encuentran en los alrededores de Londres: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent y Middlesex, un alto porcentaje de cuya población se encuentra en buena posición económica. De ahí que el término Home Counties haya adquirido dimensiones culturales y a la gente que vive en ellos se les considere en general personas adineradas de clase media-alta que, además, tienen al hablar un acento muy particular, conocido como RP.
Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
home
[ˈhəʊm]
adv
(= right in) to drive sth home [+ nail, screw] → enfoncer qch à fond
modif
(= national) [politics, economy, issue] → intérieur(e) home news
(= concentrate on) [person] [+ problem, weakness] → se focaliser surhome address n (on forms) → domicile m (permanent); (as opposed to business address) → adresse f personnelle
What’s your home address?
BUT Quelle est votre adresse ?.home assembly home-assembly
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
home
n
(Sport) (= base) → Mal nt; (Racing) → Ziel nt
adv
(position) → zu Hause, zuhause (Aus, Sw), → daheim; (with verb of motion) → nach Hause, nachhause (Aus, Sw), → heim; to go home (to house) → nach Hause or (Aus, Sw) → nachhause gehen/fahren; (to country) → heimfahren; on the way home → auf dem Heim- or Nachhauseweg; the first runner home → der Erste, der durchs Ziel geht; the first runner home was Fred → Fred ging als Erster durchs Ziel; to get home → nach Hause or (Aus, Sw) nachhause kommen, heimkommen; (in race) → durchs Ziel gehen; I have to get home before ten → ich muss vor zehn zu Hause or (Aus, Sw) zuhause or daheim sein; to return home from abroad → aus dem Ausland zurückkommen
home
:
home address
n → Heimatadresse or -anschrift f; (as opposed to business address) → Privatanschrift f
home base
n (Baseball) → Homebase nt, → Schlagmal nt
home-brew
n → selbst gebrautes Bier, Selbstgebraute(s) nt
Home Counties
pl Grafschaften, die an London angrenzen
home entertainment system
n → Home-Entertainment-System nt
home improvements
n → Renovierungsarbeiten pl (am Haus oder in der Wohnung)
home improvements loan
n → Modernisierungsdarlehen nt
home
:
homemaker
n (US: = housewife) → Hausfrau f, → Hausmutter f; (= social worker) → Familienfürsorger(in) m(f)
home movie
n → Amateurfilm m
home
:
home plate
n (Baseball) → Ausgangsbase nt
home port
n → Heimathafen m
home
:
home sales
pl → Inlandsumsatz m
home side
n (Sport) → Gastgeber pl, → Heimmannschaft f
homespun
n (= cloth) → Homespun nt (grober, genoppter Wollstoff)
homesteader
n
→ Heimstättenbesitzer(in) m(f)
(US) → Heimstättensiedler(in) m(f)
home straight, home stretch
n (Sport) → Zielgerade f; we’re in the home now (fig inf) → das Ende ist in Sicht
home team
n (Sport) → Gastgeber pl, → Heimmannschaft f, → Platzherren pl (inf)
home video
n → Amateurvideo nt
home
:
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
home
(həum) noun
1. 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.
2. the place from which a person, thing etc comes originally. America is the home of jazz.
3. a place where children without parents, old people, people who are ill etc live and are looked after. an old folk’s home; a nursing home.
4. a place where people stay while they are working. a nurses’ home.
5. a house. Crumpy Construction build fine homes for fine people; He invited me round to his home.
adjective
1. of a person’s home or family. home comforts.
2. of the country etc where a person lives. home produce.
3. (in football) playing or played on a team’s own ground. the home team; a home game.
adverb
1. to a person’s home. I’m going home now; Hallo – I’m home!
2. completely; to the place, position etc a thing is intended to be. He drove the nail home; Few of his punches went home; These photographs of the war brought home to me the suffering of the soldiers.
ˈhomeless noun plural, adjective
(people) without a place to live in. This charity was set up to help the homeless; homeless people.
ˈhomely adjective
1. simple but pleasant. homely food.
2. making a person feel he is at home. a homely atmosphere.
3. (American) (of a person) not attractive; ugly.
ˈhomeliness nounˈhoming adjective
1. (of pigeons etc) which (can) fly home when set free a long way from home.
2. able to take a missile etc to its target. These torpedoes have homing devices in their noses.
ˈhome-coming noun
1. the return home of a person (who has been away for some time). We had a party to celebrate his home-coming.
2. (American) an annual event held by a college, a university or high school for former students.
ˌhome-ˈgrown adjective
grown in one’s own garden or in one’s own country. These tomatoes are home-grown.
ˈhomeland noun
a person’s native land. Immigrants often weep for their homeland.
ˌhome-ˈmade adjective
made by a person at home; not professionally made. home-made jam; home-made furniture.
home rule
the government of a country or part of a country by its own citizens.
ˈhomesick adjective
missing one’s home. When the boy first went to boarding-school he was very homesick.
ˈhomesickness nounˈhomestead (-sted) noun
a house, especially a farm, with the land and other buildings (eg barns) which belong to it, especially in the United States, Australia etc.
home truth
a plain statement of something which is unpleasant but true (about a person, his behaviour etc) said directly to the person. It’s time someone told him a few home truths.
ˈhomeward adjective
going home. his homeward journey.
ˈhomeward(s) adverb
towards home. his journey homeward; He journeyed homewards.
ˈhomework noun
work or study done at home, especially by a school pupil. Finish your homework!
at home
1. in one’s home. I’m afraid he’s not at home.
2. (in football etc) in one’s own ground. The team is playing at home today.
be/feel at home
to feel as relaxed as one does in one’s own home or in a place or situation one knows well. I always feel at home in France; He’s quite at home with cows – he used to live on a farm.
home in on
to move towards (a target etc). The missile is designed to home in on aircraft.
leave home
1. to leave one’s house. I usually leave home at 7.30 a.m.
2. to leave one’s home to go and live somewhere else. He left home at the age of fifteen to get a job in Australia.
make oneself at home
to make oneself as comfortable and relaxed as one would at home. Make yourself at home!
nothing to write home about
not very good. The concert was nothing to write home about.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
home
→ بِالبَيْتِ, بَيْت doma, domov hjem heim, Zuhause σπίτι, σπίτι μου a casa, hogar koti, kotona à la maison, maison dom, kući a casa, casa 我が家へ, 自宅 집, 집에 thuis hjem do domu, dom lar, para casa дом, домой hem ที่บ้าน, บ้าน ev, evde nhà, ở nhà 回家, 家
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
home
n. casa, hogar;
broken ___ → hogar deshecho.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
- I’d like to go home
- When are you going home? (US)
When do you go home? (UK) - Please come home by eleven p.m. (US)
Please come home by 11p.m. (UK) - Come home whenever you like
- May I phone home?
- Would you like to phone home?
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
home
adj domiciliario, casero; — care atención domiciliaria; — remedy remedio casero; n casa, hogar, domicilio; You can go home..Puede regresar a la casa; at — en casa; convalescent — (ant) casa de convalecencia or descanso, (euph) centro de enfermería especializada; medical — hogar médico; nursing — (fam) centro de enfermería especializada; rest — (ant) casa de reposo or descanso, (euph) centro de enfermería especializada
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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noun
a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
the place in which one’s domestic affections are centered.
an institution for people who lack stable housing, who are sick or infirm, etc.: a nursing home;a home for those with dementia.
the dwelling place or retreat of an animal.
the place or region where something is native or most common.
any place of residence or refuge: a heavenly home.
a person’s native place or own country.
a principal base of operations or activities: The new stadium will be the home of the local football team.
(in games) the destination or goal.
Lacrosse. one of three attack positions nearest the opposing goal.
adjective
of, relating to, or connected with one’s home or country: home cooking;the rising home demand for gasoline.
principal or main: the corporation’s home office.
reaching the mark aimed at: a home thrust.
Sports. played in a ball park, arena, or the like, that is or is assumed to be the center of operations of a team: The pitcher didn’t lose a single home game all season.Compare away (def. 11).
adverb
to, toward, or at home: to go home.
deep; to the heart: The truth of the accusation struck home.
to the mark or point aimed at: He drove the point home.
Nautical.
- into the position desired; perfectly or to the greatest possible extent: We radioed instructions to the crew, and the huge sails were sheeted home.
- in the proper, stowed position: The anchor is home.
- toward its vessel: to bring the anchor home.
verb (used without object), homed, hom·ing.
to navigate toward a point by means of coordinates other than those given by altitudes (often followed by on): This clever defensive technology prevented torpedoes from homing on the U-boat.
to go or return home: Bees have the ability to learn visual landmarks and use them when foraging and homing.
to have a home where specified; reside: God now homes in the hearts of His people.
verb (used with object), homed, hom·ing.
to provide with a home: After being microchipped and fully vaccinated, the puppy was homed with six weeks free insurance.
Computers.
- to provide (a computer) with a network connection: Each subscriber must be homed to a node in the network.
- to prepare (a 3D printer) for use by setting the horizontal and vertical limits for positioning the extruder before a printing task: Do not try to do anything with your printer until you home it.
to provide a display or storage space for; house: Adding lighting to the unit creates a stunning wall feature to home all your treasured possessions. The library homes a wide variety of resources for the avid gardener.
to direct, especially under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc.: The guidance system homed the missile on a target that was radar-illuminated by the launch aircraft.
to bring or send home.
Verb Phrases
home in (on),
- (of guided missiles, aircraft, etc.) to proceed, especially under control of an automatic aiming mechanism, toward a specified target, as a plane, missile, or location: The bomb homed in on the bridge.
- to direct one’s attention or energies toward: The committee quickly homed in on the relevant details.
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Idioms about home
- in one’s own house or place of residence.
- in one’s own town or country.
- prepared or willing to receive social visits: Tell him I’m not at home.We are always at home to her.
- in a situation familiar to one; at ease: She has a way of making everyone feel at home.
- well-informed; proficient: to be at home in the classics.
- played in one’s hometown or on one’s own grounds: The Yankees played two games at home and one away.
at home,
bring home to, to make evident to; clarify or emphasize for: The irrevocability of her decision was brought home to her.
- assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we’ll be home free.
- certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free.
home and dry, British Informal. having safely achieved one’s goal.
home free,
write home about, to comment especially on; remark on (usually used in the negative): The town was nothing to write home about.His cooking is really something to write home about.
Origin of home
First recorded before 900; noun and adverb; Middle English hom, Old English hām; cognate with Dutch heim, Old Norse heimr, Danish hjem, Swedish hem, German Heim “home,” Gothic haims “village”; akin to haunt
synonym study for home
usage note for home
OTHER WORDS FROM home
min·i·home, noun
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH home
home , house (see synonym study at house)
Words nearby home
homage, homager, homalographic, hombre, homburg, home, home aid, home-alone, home automation, home banking, home base
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MORE ABOUT HOME
What is a basic definition of home?
Home is a noun that refers to the place where a person or animal lives. Home can also mean a location where something is native or very common. Home is also used as an adverb to describe something that occurs to, toward, or at a home. Home has many other senses as a noun, adjective, and adverb.
The place where you live is your home. Animals also have homes. A nest is a bee’s home, for example.
Home is a synonym of the word house. However, home is often used to imply that a person is emotionally attached to the place they live and feels a sense of comfort there. While house can also refer to an empty building, home usually describes a building that is occupied.
- Real-life examples: Houses, apartments, and condominiums are buildings that are used for homes. Animals make their homes in water, trees, caves, grass, underground, and elsewhere.
- Used in a sentence: I invited my friends to a party at my home.
Home can also refer to a place where something is common or originates from.
- Real-life examples: The United States is the home of baseball. Israel is home to many religious sites. Social media is the home of most of our favorite Internet memes.
- Used in a sentence: Japan is the home of my heart.
As an adverb, home describes something that is happening at a home or happening to a home.
- Real-life examples: When school is over, children go home. When people are sick, they might decide to stay home and not go to work. Military spouses often wait for their partners to return home.
- Used in a sentence: She waited for her brother to come home before ordering pizza.
Where does home come from?
The first records of home come from before the 900s. It comes from the Old English word hām, both as a noun and adverb. The Old English word is related to words for home in other languages, such as the Dutch heim, the Old Norse heimr, and the German Heim.
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How is home used in real life?
Home is a common word that is most often used to refer to places where people live.
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Try using home!
Which of the following is NOT a synonym for home?
A. apartment
B. mansion
C. office
D. cabin
Words related to home
apartment, cabin, condo, condominium, cottage, dormitory, dwelling, farm, hospital, house, hut, mansion, palace, place, residence, resort, shelter, trailer, country, family
How to use home in a sentence
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She was greeted by dozens of onlookers on the street outside the home.
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Moreno on Wednesday night told the Washington Blade that he is at his home and safe.
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We’re able to build the script in our own home by ourselves.
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Streaming watch parties have outlasted states’ shelter-at-home orders.
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Harris did best in vote-rich New Castle County, winning 37 percent of the vote there, and ran strongest near Newark, home to the University of Delaware.
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That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
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So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
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Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
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The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
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Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
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It was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.
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In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.
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I’ve never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.
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Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
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«I suppose the man Alessandro has something he calls a home,» said the Senora, regaining herself a little.
British Dictionary definitions for home (1 of 2)
noun
the place or a place where one liveshave you no home to go to?
a house or other dwelling
a family or other group living in a house or other place
a person’s country, city, etc, esp viewed as a birthplace, a residence during one’s early years, or a place dear to one
the environment or habitat of a person or animal
the place where something is invented, founded, or developedthe US is the home of baseball
- a building or organization set up to care for orphans, the aged, etc
- an informal name for a mental home
sport one’s own groundthe match is at home
- the objective towards which a player strives in certain sports
- an area where a player is safe from attack
lacrosse
- one of two positions of play nearest the opponents’ goal
- a player assigned to such a positioninside home
NZ informal, obsolete Britain, esp England
a home from home a place other than one’s own home where one can be at ease
at home
- in one’s own home or country
- at ease, as if at one’s own home
- giving an informal party at one’s own home
- British such a party
at home in, at home on or at home with familiar or conversant with
home and dry British informal definitely safe or successfulwe will not be home and dry until the votes have been counted Austral. and NZ equivalent: home and hosed
near home concerning one deeply
adjective (usually prenominal)
of, relating to, or involving one’s home, country, etc; domestic
(of an activity) done in one’s househome taping
effective or deadlya home thrust
sport relating to one’s own grounda home game
US central; principalthe company’s home office
adverb
to or at homeI’ll be home tomorrow
to or on the point
to the fullest extenthammer the nail home
(of nautical gear) into or in the best or proper positionthe boom is home
bring home to
- to make clear to
- to place the blame on
come home nautical (of an anchor) to fail to hold
come home to to become absolutely clear to
nothing to write home about informal to be of no particular interestthe film was nothing to write home about
verb
(intr) (of birds and other animals) to return home accurately from a distance
(often foll by on or onto) to direct or be directed onto a point or target, esp by automatic navigational aids
to send or go home
to furnish with or have a home
(intr; often foll by in or in on) to be directed towards a goal, target, etc
Derived forms of home
homelike, adjective
Word Origin for home
Old English hām; related to Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims, Old High German heim, Dutch heem, Greek kōmi village
British Dictionary definitions for home (2 of 2)
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Other Idioms and Phrases with home
In addition to the idioms beginning with home
- home free
- home in on
- home run
- home truth
also see:
- at home
- bring home
- bring home the bacon
- chickens come home to roost
- close to home
Drive Homeeat someone out of house and homemake oneself at homenobody homenothing to write home abouttill the cows come home.
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