home meaning
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- A home is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, family, household or several families in a tribe.
- Transitory accommodation, such as a hospital, prison, boarding school, college or university is not normally considered permanent enough to replace a more stable location as 'home'.
EN Home 



- NounPLhomesPREhome-SUF-ome
- (heading) A dwelling.
- And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne 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.
- He enter'd in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home; [ …]
- It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
- a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; a veterans' home
- [ …] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: [ …]
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- the home of the pine
- (heading) A focus point.
- The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
- (US) SLA Shortened form of homeboy.
- (computing) Short for home directory.
- (heading) A dwelling.
- VerbSGhomesPRhomingPT, PPhomed
- Adjective
- Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
- Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
- Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
- Adverb
- To one’s home or country.
- go home, come home, carry home.
- Close; closely.
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home
- In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
- (Britain, soccer) Into the goal.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- Click here to go home.
- To one’s home or country.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- John came home drunk last night — he’d been at the vino again.
- A dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there. — Charles Kingsley.
- The U.S. ski team beat the stuffing out of the Austrians in Alpine, but Norway took the gold home in Nordic.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The little boy was unhappy about having to take a bath every day and decided to run away from home.
- As a Usonian of Celtic-Franco/Gallego Mexican-Quaker-Catholic-German-Blackfoot-Rock&Roll descent, I feel at home.
- To save electricity, I unplug my computer when I am not at home.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of home in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary

