What is a word for feeling at home

Homelike is used to describe places that feel like a home, especially one’s own home. In many cases, it means the same thing as homey, which is used to describe a place as cozy, comfortable, and inviting.

What it means to ground yourself?

To ‘be grounded,’ or ‘grounding yourself,’ essentially means staying connected to the present moment without getting lost in thoughts or emotions. As the ground, or earth, is symbolic of stability and strength, staying grounded essentially means finding your inner roots, your inner connection to the earth.

What is a well grounded person?

When people describe someone as being grounded, they refer to a physical and mental state of being confident and sure of oneself. Being grounded means you have a strong connection with who you are, which brings you physical and emotional balance.

What does it mean when someone is grounded?

(graʊndɪd ) adjective. If you say that someone is grounded, you mean that they are sensible and reasonable, and that they understand the importance of ordinary things in life. Family and old friends help me stay grounded.

How do you say beautiful home?

1. lovely home. n.
2. beautiful place. n.
3. lovely house. n.
4. nice home. n.
5. gorgeous home. n.
6. wonderful home. n.
7. handsome home. n.
8. beautiful house. n.

How do you say home in different languages?

• Apache: Chiricahua: kuugha̧ Western: gowąh.
• Chinese (simplified): 家 (house: 房子)
• Dutch: huis/thuis.
• French: maison.
• German: heim.
• Greek: σπίτι
• Hebrew: be-it.
• Italian: casa.

How do you say happy in other languages?

1. Arabic: سَعِيد
2. Brazilian Portuguese: feliz.
3. Chinese: 快乐的
4. Croatian: sretan.
5. Czech: šťastný spokojený
6. Danish: glad.
7. Dutch: gelukkig.
8. European Spanish: feliz.

What does it mean to be homegrown?

Definition of homegrown 1 : grown or produced at home or in a particular local area homegrown vegetables homegrown films. 2 : native to or characteristic of a particular area the festival will feature homegrown artists.

How would you describe your birthplace?

The climate is suitable for us to live and it has beautiful hills, peaks and many more. I enjoy the scenario of my villege. Every minute I can feel fresh air and cool atmosphere. There are clean water resources and it is safe to drink without any kinds of purification.

How do you stay grounded in life?

1. Practice gratitude.
2. Appreciate life’s simple pleasures.
3. Take a break.
4. Connect with others.
5. Be the change you want to see in the world.
6. Prioritize your mental and emotional health.
7. Stay active.
8. Make the best of it and have fun.

How do you do grounding at home?

One of the easiest ways to ground yourself to the earth is to walk barefoot. Whether this is on grass, sand, or even mud, allowing your skin to touch the natural ground can provide you with grounding energy.

How do you use well grounded in a sentence?

I do not believe those fears are well grounded. I am not saying that those fears were well grounded, but the troubles arose from, it may be, the lies that were circulated. That faith is well grounded upon six years of really sound finance. This concern is therefore well grounded and should not be treated lightly.

How do you use the word grounded?

1. The boxer grounded his opponent.
2. His arguments are well grounded in facts.
3. I grounded my opinion on facts.
4. The young players all seemed very well grounded in the rich history of the music they were performing.

What does it mean when your parents ground you?

Grounding is a general discipline technique which is restriction of children at home from going out. During this time period, any positive reinforcement is taken away and other privileges, such as but not limited to using the Internet, playing video games, or watching television, are often revoked.

Why is it important to stay grounded?

Not control over others or external circumstances but control of yourself, your emotions, and the stories you choose to believe about your life. To “stay grounded” means that you have the ability to stay calm and connect to the core of who you are in the face of uncertainty.

How do you know if you are grounded?

The concept of being grounded refers to a feeling of being stable, at ease, and consciously present. When we feel grounded, we are able to accept and let go of the momentary tough moments throughout the day and are not easily influenced by others’ ideas or feelings. You feel more at peace with your authentic self.

How do you compliment a beautiful house?

1. “Your new house is just beautiful.
2. “You’ve worked for this home for a long time.
3. “Your new home is such a perfect reflection of you.
4. “Love your new place!
5. “You’ve really turned your new place into something amazing!

How would you describe a peaceful life?

A peaceful life is a life that is lived with a balanced harmony inside you and around you. It means that you feel content with whatever is going on in your life or around you, and nothing and no one can disturb this inner peace of yours.

What are the unique words?

• Anachronism. An anachronism is something (or someone) that is out of place in terms of time or chronology.
• Accismus. A form of irony in which someone feigns indifference to something he or she desires.
• Cacophony.
• Draconian.
• Limerence.
• Pareidolia.
• Riposte.
• Sanctimony.

Is heaven our home?

Heaven is our true home, but heaven begins here on earth as the Holy Spirit transforms us into a community that manifests love. Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, sing his mercy and his grace: In the mansions bright and blessed, he’ll prepare for us a place.

feel at home

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Meaning: If you feel relaxed and comfortable somewhere or with someone, you feel at home.

Country: International English |
Subject Area: Buildings & construction |
Usage Type: Both or All Words Used

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Словосочетания

Автоматический перевод

чувствовать себя дома, почувствовать себя дома

Перевод по словам

feel  — ощущение, вкус, чутье, осязание, чувствовать, почувствовать, ощущать
home  — дома, домой, в цель, дом, жилище, родина, домашний, родной, жить

Примеры

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” ~Basho

For over three years, I’ve been living out of a suitcase and traveling around the world doing a combination of volunteering, housesitting, and couch surfing.

This journey started after I decided to drastically change my life. In the span of a week, I filed for divorce, quit my high-paying job in New York, left my PhD program at an Ivy League school, sold all my stuff, and flew to South America.

After spending six months volunteering in Brazil, I began to realize that, while I was born and raised in New York, it never really felt like home.

While I always knew I struggled with many aspects of the external environment, it was how I felt internally when I returned from South America that really made me realize how misunderstood and unhappy I was when I was there.

So flying to South America turned out to be the first stop on a long quest to find a new home. Since then, I’ve driven to over thirty states in the US and have been welcomed into so many homes, I’ve lost count. I’ve viewed each of these experiences as an opportunity to learn how other people have created a sense of home for themselves.

Here are five ways I’ve learned to develop a sense of home, and how you can too:

1. Seek safety.

Feeling safe is a basic human need and part of the foundation that allows us to relax and open up to the world around us. Feeling safe isn’t just a sense of physical well-being; it’s a sense of emotional and psychological well-being, as well.

Many things can make a space feel unsafe, everything from unsettled relationships, to unfamiliar surroundings, to unsanitary living conditions. Growing up, there was a great deal of unspoken tension in the house, and when I got married, I never felt emotionally safe with my now ex-husband.

As I’ve moved around over the last few years, I’ve confirmed that if we don’t feel safe, it’s impossible to feel at home. As a result, there have been places I thought I’d stay for weeks that I ended up leaving after a few hours, and there are places I thought I’d spend one night and ended up staying several months.

Anyone or anything that disrupts your sense of safety will become an obstacle on your quest to feeling at home. Eliminate these obstacles by either moving on from unsettling situations or by developing healthy boundaries that help to maintain your safe space.

2. Connect with people.

While a physical space (home, apartment, condo) can provide a degree of structure and external stability, it’s the people we surround ourselves with that truly make or break a home. We all need a community of people in which we feel understood and supported.

When I was living on Long Island, it appeared that I had a huge network of people surrounding me. But as I’ve traveled and found communities of like-minded individuals, I’ve realized just how misunderstood and disconnected I felt growing up. Once I experienced what it feels like to be embraced and accepted by those around me, it became impossible to settle for anything less.

Connecting with others takes effort and time. Talk to those around you and really listen to what they’re saying. Notice how you feel when you’re with them; when you’re around those that feel like home, you’ll know. Keep searching until you find the community of people that feels right for you.

3. Explore and try new things.

It’s easy to take for granted everything that our environment has to offer. But chances are there is a great deal more going on than we realize. If we can learn to view life as though we are on an adventure, we’ll feel more inspired to explore that which is right in front of us.

When I arrive at a new city, I have zero expectations about what I want to see or do; instead, I speak to the people in the community and ask them for advice. This is how I ended up on a river float in Missoula, Montana; learned salsa dancing in Boulder, Colorado; and explored artwork in a tiny park on the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri.

Bring a sense of enthusiasm into everything you do, as though you’re a child seeing everything for the first time. Be curious, ask questions, and learn details; every place and every person has a story. Be fearless and go out and explore; this exploration will help you build the deeper connection to the world around you that is needed to feel at home.

4. Spend some time alone.

Developing a sense of home is as much an internal discovery as it is an external one. Being present and aware of our feelings and intuitions will help guide us toward making the necessary changes needed to feel at home.

Even though I’m moving around to different places, I still make time for myself every day. I wake up and do a yoga practice, go on long walks by myself, meditate, journal and spend long drives in silence as a way to clear my mind.

Take some time alone each day and use this time to check in with your emotions. Inquire about how the people and environment make you feel. Journey within as much as you journey outward and ask yourself what you can do to make the space you’re in feel more like home.

5. Slow down.

It can be tempting to rush in and out of new environments, frantically trying to explore and connect. But to truly develop a sense of home, we must slow down long enough to really experience the people and places we find ourselves in; this same concept applies to environments that we’ve been living in our entire lives.

There have been several moments over the past few years where I’ve found myself caught up in needing to see and do everything that every city has to offer. Not only is this impossible, but it’s also exhausting. Focusing on quality over quantity, in both my connections with others and in my experiences, has been far more powerful in creating a sense of home than having a laundry list of mediocre ones.

Become an active participant in the world around you rather than sitting on the sidelines and observing life as it passes you by. Take the necessary time to fully process each and every experience and each and every person you meet along the way.

Take one step today toward exploring your sense of home wherever you go.

There are plenty of ways in which you can explore the world around you, but remember that you must also look inside yourself and let your gut be your guide.

Home is where you feel safe, connected, understood, and loved. The more present and engaged you are with both yourself and the world around you, the easier it will be to feel at home anywhere.

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Home is such an integral part of our private lives and yet many of us have spent little time thinking about the feeling of home in much detail. What is it that makes a house feel like a home? Or what is it that makes us feel at home even in places we have never been to before? What contributes to creating that feeling of ease, contentment and belonging that can make a place feel like home even when we have never spent time in it before? There is a comforting feeling of belonging that arises when we enter our homes but that feeling is not necessarily restricted to private spaces. Public spaces like restaurants, shops, churches, museums, parks or even entire areas of a city can evoke that feeling of contentment, warmth and belonging making us feel completely at home even in places we have never been to before. What are the factors that contribute to creating those feelings of ease, familiarity, comfort and belonging?

I have been trying to understand that feeling a little better. If we can understand what contributes to creating that warm, comforting feeling of home we can begin to understand how to intentionally translate that into the atmospheres we create and the objects we bring in to our spaces to facilitate. Ultimately, the aim of this exploration is to guide the products we select for our store as well as inform any advice we offer on how to create interiors that make people feel contented.

Of course, the idea of what makes a space feel like home is deeply personal. But I believe there are some commonalities across people that stretch back to our common evolutionary heritage and that are tied into a very basic need to feel comfortable and safe. It is these commonalities that I am interested in and want to learn more about.

But before diving deeper into investigating this topic, as a starting point, I wanted to note down a few ideas from a naïve viewpoint, informed only by personal thoughts and experience rather than research and investigation. On that note, below are a few thoughts on some of the factors that might contribute to facilitating the feelings of home:

• Feeling safe and secure – a sense of physical safety is absolutely essential for feeling at home. But I think that it is a sense of emotional safety and security that makes us feel truly at home in a space. This is a huge topic and there are many diverse factors that contribute to a feeling of emotional security. Everything from a sense of privacy (anyone who has lived in London knows how uncomfortable it can be to hear every footstep and even worse every sound neighbours make, making one hyper-aware that they must be hearing the same) to how layout, furniture and objects can make us feel snug, safe and secure. Are there objects and design decisions that evoke a feeling of being embraced, enveloped or evoke notions of being nurtured? What makes a space feel like a nurturing shelter? From furniture and materials that make us feel comfortable to layout decisions that offer places for retreating in to, spaces that evoke a sense of emotional security are more likely to make us feel at home. 

• Thought, care, effort, hospitality – spaces that have been considered and have had care and thought put into them are much more likely to evoke a sense of belonging than those that have been put together without much care and attention. What’s more, whether it is a public space like a restaurant or someone else’s home, a sense of being welcomed within a public space or someone else’s private space through care, effort and hospitality will play a role in making us feel at home. When spaces and the objects within them are cared for, when thought and consideration has gone into them, when care and effort have gone into creating a space or an atmosphere, we are much more likely to feel at home. 

• Atmosphere – what contributes to creating a homey atmosphere will differ across people and cultures. But what are some common, primal, ancestral feelings that evoke a sense of home that we might all have in common? And how do these contribute to creating an atmosphere within a space? Our common experience will be rooted in our hunter-gatherer ancestry where feelings of ‘home’ would have been evoked by sitting around a fire, feeling safe and satiated, resting and recharging with family and familiars. Today this could translate into many diverse experiences all rooted in this same common scene. From actually sitting around a fireplace to the atmosphere created by candlelight or even atmospheric artificial lighting, to the feelings of rest and comfort evoked by a nurturing meal. But I believe this desire to feel something ancestrally familiar is also echoed in our use of natural materials in our homes. The feel of materials like wood and wool which humans have worked and lived with for millennia as compared to new man-made materials like plastic which have only been around for the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms are more familiar and therefore more likely to put us at ease and make us feel at home.

• Soft and rounded over edgy and hard – soft furnishings, material and texture, as well as rounded shapes, are more comforting from an evolutionary perspective than sharp edges and scratchy textures. We tend to have an innate preference for soft and rounded objects as sharp objects are more closely associated with threat. Contrasted with clinical and sterile environments like hospitals which are not known for being warm and welcoming, I wonder whether soft furnishing and the comfort of nesting contributes to creating a feeling of home?

• Creating a sense of ease and belonging – places that use symbols or a visual language we identify with have an ability to put us at ease and create a sense of belonging. The use of symbols we are familiar with and identify with signals that we are among like-minded people and therefore welcome which results in a sense of belonging. For example, a restaurant that echoes design preference of our demographic tapping into the popular visual language or the symbolism of a sports bar that caters to fans of that team.

• Pleasant and inviting sensations – from smells to sights to sounds and physical sensations, stimulating our senses in a way that feels inviting to us is an important part of creating an atmosphere and a feeling of home. Common threads might include smells of food cooking, baking or seasonal and natural scents, materials that feel soft and comforting to touch and spaces that have symmetry or a visual rhythm that makes them pleasing to the eye.

• A space that reflects those aspects of our own character back to us that we identify most strongly with – when we value certain characteristics over others whether that is the desire to feel calm or to be creative or intelligent, we are likely to feel most comfortable in environments that reinforce and reflect back those aspects of our personality we wish to nourish and cultivate. While these will differ across people, the common element is that we will all feel most at home in spaces that are able to reflect back the most desired aspects of our own personality back to us.

• The social element of home — in contrast with the point above which relates to feeling at home in spaces that foster our own individuality, spaces designed to create a sense of communality and conviviality will also have a role to play in evoking that comforting feeling of home. Many people will seek a balance between private spaces to hide away and retreat in with places where they can gather, connect and socialise. A sensation of feeling at home is probably best conjured up by spaces that have the ability to cater to both of these needs.

While individual difference, cultural, demographic and socio-economic factors, and trend-based factors will certainly make their contribution to the immense variation we see in spaces that feel homey, I would like to explore what they have in common that might be rooted in our common ancestral heritage.

While it is unlikely that we will find answers that span across all people I am interested in exploring the common elements and parameters that are important for fostering that wonderfully comforting feeling of home.

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Accommodation & Home Vocabulary 

Learning
home vocabulary is a must because ‘your home’ is one of the five topics in Part
1 of the IELTS Speaking test that you could be asked about. You may also need
to talk about homes or different types of accommodation in Speaking Parts 2 and
3 and the topic could come up in the Writing, Reading or Listening
sections of the exam as well.

So, let’s make sure you’re well prepared.

Here are a few things you could be asked about:

This page includes over 100
common words and phrases related to accommodation and homes. I’ve added an
explanation for each one and a sample sentence to show it in context. This will
help you to learn how to use it correctly.

Don’t try to learn them all.
Look at my suggestions below as to the best way to use this comprehensive list
of home vocabulary.

Also check out my Buildings & Architecure Vocabulary page for related words.

Relaxing at home.

To ensure that you’re ready to answer any accommodation or home-related questions, I’ve included four things here:

You’ll find PDF downloads of
both the questions and sample answers and the accommodation and home vocabulary
list at the bottom of the respective sections.

The questions relate to the
Speaking test because this part of the exam offers the broadest range of
possible questions on this topic. They give the best opportunity for me to
demonstrate the vocabulary and for you to practise using it.

I’ve included IELTS-style
questions and answers for all three parts of the Speaking test. I’ve
highlighted keywords and phrases in bold.

You’ll find these words and
phrases, and many others, in the vocabulary list beneath. The list also
includes explanations and sample sentences and there’s an audio to listen to
the pronunciation.

The home vocabulary list
contains words and phrases relevant to all parts of the IELTS exam.

Finally, at the bottom of
the page, I’ve added links to topical articles, short videos and podcasts that
will help you to improve both your accommodation and home vocabulary and your
reading and listening skills.

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IELTS-Style
Speaking Test Questions and Answers

Common accommodation and home vocabulary
is highlighted in bold.

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Cities like Hong Kong have many high-rise apartments as there is very little space to build accommodation.

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I recommend that you create
your own answers to the Speaking questions on this page. You will find many
other IELTS-style practise questions by searching online. 

For help on how to learn
vocabulary, what to learn and how to record it, visit these pages:

How to Learn Vocabulary for
IELTS

Top 6 Types of IELTS
Vocabulary & Topic Word Lists

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Ways to Improve Your Home Vocabulary

One of the best
ways to improve your home vocabulary is through reading. Watching topic related YouTube
videos and listening to podcasts is also hugely beneficial.

Here are some
online resources I recommend.

Accommodation & Home Articles

Our Property

The Guardian — Property

Rightmove — Renting & other articles

One
of the best reading resources is property listings. Google ‘property for sale’
and read property listings on the websites that come up. They’ll contain much
of the homes vocabulary we’ve been studying.

TED Talks

I love TED Talks. They are short videos
with a powerful message and are generally very interesting. They’re ideal for
improving your vocabulary and give valuable listening skills practise.

Search TED Talks — Homes to help you improve your home vocabulary.

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