Dictionary Definition
home adj
2 relating to or being where one lives or where
one's roots are; "my home town"
3 inside the country; "the British Home Office
has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of
the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a),
internal, national]
Noun
1 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?" [syn: place]
2 housing that someone is living in; "he built a
modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling
house]
3 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"
4 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"
5 an institution where people are cared for; "a
home for the elderly" [syn: nursing
home, rest
home]
6 the place where you are stationed and from
which missions start and end [syn: base]
7 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" [syn: family, household, house, menage]
8 (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"
[syn: home
plate, home base,
plate]
9 place where something began and flourished;
"the United States is the home of basketball" adv
1 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 on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck
home"
3 to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the
nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
Verb
1 provide with, or send to, a home
2 return home accurately from a long distance;
"homing pigeons"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
hom < hām < *heimaz < *tkoi-, an o-grade variant of *tkei-. Cognate with German Heim, Dutch heem and heim-, and the place-name segment -ham "village."Noun
- One’s own dwelling
place; the house or
structure in which one lives; especially the house in
which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s
birthplace.
- The disciples went away again to their own home. —John xx. 10.
- Home is the sacred refuge of our life. —Dryden.
- Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There’s no place like home. —Payne.
- Home is the sacred refuge of our life. —Dryden.
- The disciples went away again to their own home. —John xx. 10.
- One’s native land;
the place or country in
which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- Our old home England. —Hawthorne.
- The place where a person was raised. Childhood or parental home. Home of one’s
parents or guardian.
- I left home last year.
- The abiding place of
the affections,
especially of the domestic affections.
- He entered in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. —Byron.
- 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.
- Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. —Tennyson.
- Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. —Prior.
- Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. —Tennyson.
- the home of the pine.
- A place of refuge and
rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind;
hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and
eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.'' —Eccl. xii.
- In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- The plate at which the batter stands. The home base.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's home page
Translations
house or structure in which someone lives
- trreq Albanian
- Apache:
- trreq Armenian
- trreq Basque
- Bosnian: dom
- Bulgarian: дом
- Catalan: llar , casa
- Chinese:
- Croatian: dom
- Czech: domov
- Danish: hjem
- Dutch: huis
- Estonian: kodu
- Finnish: koti
- French: foyer, maison
- Georgian: სახლი (saxli)
- German: Heim, Zuhause, Wohnung
- Greek: σπίτι
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: otthon
- Italian: casa
- Japanese: 家 (いえ, ie)
- Kannada: ಮನೆ (mane)
- Kurdish: mal,
- Latin: domus, domicilium
- Livonian: kuod
- Maltese: dar
- Marathi: घर (ghar)
- Nahuatl: chantli
- Navajo: hooghan
- Norwegian: heim, hjem
- Polish: dom
- Portuguese: lar, casa
- Punjabi: ਘਰ (ghar)
- Romanian: casă
- Russian: дом (dom)
- Scots: hame, hyim
- Scottish Gaelic: dachaigh , taigh
- Serbian:
- Slovene: dom
- Spanish: hogar
- Swedish: hem
- Tagalog: bahay, tahanan
- Tajik: хона (hona)
- Telugu: ఇల్లు (illu)
- Thai: (bâan)
- Tulu: ಇಲ್ಲು (illu)
- Turkish: ev, yurt
- Vietnamese: nhà, nhà cửa, nhà ở, chỗ ở; nơi sinh (birthplace)
someone’s native land
- Croatian: domovina
- Danish: hjemland
- Dutch: moederland
- Estonian: kodumaa, isamaa
- Finnish: kotimaa, kotiseutu, kotipesä
- French: patrie
- German: Heimat
- Greek: πατρίδα
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: szülőföld
- Italian: patria, paese
- Japanese: 故郷 (こきょう, kokyō), 母国 (ぼこく, bokoku)
- Maltese: pajjiż
- Norwegian: hjemland
- Portuguese: lar, casa
- Scots: hame, hyim
- Slovene: dom
- Swedish: hemland
- Vietnamese: quê hương, tổ quốc
childhood or parental home
place of the affections
- Croatian: dom
- Portuguese: lar, casa
- Russian: дом (dom)
- Slovene: dom
- Vietnamese: nhà
habitat
place of refuge or rest
goal (sports)
- Italian: meta, traguardo
- Vietnamese: đích
- ttbc Afrikaans: tuiste
- ttbc Catalan: llar , casa
- ttbc Dutch: huis , thuis
- ttbc Esperanto: hejmo
- ttbc Estonian: kodu
- ttbc Ido: hemo
- ttbc Kinyarwanda: urugo
- ttbc Old English: eard (1,2,3,4,5), hām (1)
- ttbc Polish: dom
- ttbc Romanian: casă
- ttbc Spanish: hogar
- ttbc Thai: (bâan); (tee-yoo)
- ttbc Turkish: ev, yurt
- ttbc Welsh: tref
Derived terms
Verb
- (usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
- The missile was able to home on the target.
Translations
to home ("in on")
- German: anpeilen, zielen
- Russian: наводиться (navodít’sja)
- Swedish: sikta in, sikta in sig på
Adjective
Derived terms
- home base
- home brew
- home economics
- home farm
- home front
- home lot
- home page
- home port
- home plate
- home range
- home rule
- home ruler
- home run
- home stretch
- home theater
- home thrust
- home video
Adverb
- To one’s home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
- Close; closely.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. —South.
- They come home to men’s business and bosoms. —Bacon.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. —South.
- 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
- Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. —Shak.
- to ram a cartridge home
- to drive a nail home
- Into the goal
- February 2004, BBC Sport - Tottenham 4-4 Leicester
- 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.
Usage notes
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.Translations
at home (adverb)
- Danish: hjemme
- Dutch: thuis
- Finnish: kotona
- French: à la maison
- German: daheim, zu Hause, zuhause
- Hungarian: otthon
- Irish: sa bhaile
- Romanian: acasă
- Russian: дома
- Slovene: doma
- Turkish: evde
homewards (adverb)
Related terms
- homing
- homeless
- homely
- homeowner
- homestead
- homey, homy
- home away from home
- home free
- independent home
- parental home
- hometown
Catalan
Etymology
homo. Compare Esperanto homo, French homme, Interlingua homine, Italian uomo, Portuguese homem, Romanian om, Sardinian ómine, Spanish hombre.Noun
homeEsperanto
Etymology
From Esperanto homo.Adverb
homeFinnish
Noun
homeExtensive Definition
A home is a place of residence or refuge. It is
usually a place where an individual or a family can rest in and be
able to store personal
property. Modern households contain sanitary
facilities and a means of preparing
food.
There are certain cultures which lack permanent
homes, such as with nomadic people.
Terminology
While a house (or other residential dwelling) is often referred to as a "home", the concept of "home" is a much broader idea which exceeds the denotation of a physical dwelling. A home is often a place of refuge and safety, where worldly cares fade and the things and people that one loves becomes the focus. Many people think of home in terms of where they grew up, and home can even be a time rather than a place.A return to home that follows an earlier
abandonment is often associated with nostalgia, or a longing for
the past.
References
External links
home in Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hām
home in Aymara: Utjawi
home in Bengali: বাড়ি
home in German: Wohnsitz
home in Spanish: Hogar
home in French: Domicile
home in Icelandic: Heimili
home in Italian: Residenza
home in Dutch: Thuis (woning)
home in Japanese: 家庭
home in Portuguese: Lar
home in Finnish: Koti
home in Swedish: Hem
home in Ukrainian: Житло
home in Contenese: 屋企
home in Chinese: 家庭
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Heaven,
Paradise, VA hospital,
Vaterland, a better
place, abode, accessible, adept in,
afterlife, afterworld, almshouse, ancestral halls,
asylum, at ease, at home,
available, bailiwick, base hospital,
birthplace, chimney
corner, clinic, comfortable, commorancy, community
hospital, composed,
convalescent home, convalescent hospital, conversant with, cosy, cradle, cuttingly, deeply, destiny, diggings, digs, domal, domestic, domicile, domiciliary, dwelling, effectively, emphasize, eternal home,
evacuation hospital, familiar with, family, family homestead,
fate, fatherland, field hospital,
fireplace, fireside, foster home, foyer, future state, general
hospital, habitat,
habitation, halfway
house, harshly, haunt, haven, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home place,
home roof, home sweet home, homeground, homeland, homestead, homewards, hospice, hospital, hospitium, house, household, impress upon,
in, infirmary, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, inland, inpatient clinic,
institution,
internal, intestine, la patrie, life
after death, life to come, living quarters, locality, lodgings, maison de sante, make
clear, manorial,
mansional, menage, mental hospital, mother
country, motherland,
municipal, national, native, native environment,
native land, native soil, next world, nursing home, orphanage, osteopathic
hospital, otherworld,
outpatient clinic, palatial, paternal roof,
patria, peaceful, place, placid, policlinic, polyclinic, poor farm,
poorhouse, postexistence, private
hospital, proficient in, profoundly, proprietary
hospital, public hospital, range, refuge, relaxed, residence, residency, residential, residentiary, rest home,
retreat, roof, rooftree, sanatorium, serene, severely, shelter, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, site, skilled in, snug harbor,
soil, special hospital,
stamping, station
hospital, stress,
surgical hospital, teaching hospital, tellingly, territory, the beyond, the
good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond, the great hereafter,
the hereafter, the old country, the unknown, toft, tranquil, untroubled, up on, veterans
hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, welcoming, well-baby clinic,
what bodes, what is fated, workhouse, world to
come