home
IPA: hˈoʊm
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- A focus point.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (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.
- (computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:
- An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Marshall County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Rayne Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory. [(computing) A directory that contains a user's files.]
verb
- (of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.
- (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
- (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.
- (obsolete) Personal, intimate.
- (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
adverb
- To one's home.
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To one's place of birth.
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
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Examples of "home" in Sentences
- The house across the road is my home.
- When she comes home, the house is spotless.
- Next to the rental house is the Jarvis home.
- Baseball family to get new ultramodern home.
- It is the ancestral home of the House of Percy.
- The county was the home of the powerful Fitzgerald family.
- With an oversupply of homes, housing construction declined.
- The house is now the home of the Cass Sculpture Foundation.
- For many centuries the manor house was a secondary home of the Bullock family.
- More recently the hall and manor house have been the homes of the Coke family.
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