at home
913
1.0
- idiom
:
en casa
- She decided to work at home instead of going to the office today.
- stay at home
- live at home
- work at home
We were on the phone that night at home a couple hours later.
- We were on the phone that night at home a couple hours later.
- Yep, the interesting part was individuals at home were rationed.
- He says keep in mind you might not find him at home.
- I I make my own oxygen at home.
- It's pretty I I'm, I'm a fan of eating at home.
- You know, I try to make up when I'm at home that, you know, I spend time with them.
- But turns out the safest way to get sprouts is to grow it at home.
Examples
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An America that is strong and prosperous at home is a nation that can lead abroad.
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I should have just stayed at home.
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Leave the kids at home to watch TV and go out for hours.
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Do you want me to write to your folks at home?
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I'm at home waiting on you.
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Ask families what supports they use at home with students and how students respond to these supports.
Academic text (2012) -
The lower costs of living at home will more than compensate for the increase in tuition.
Academic text (2012) -
Only 63 percent of patients who lived at home before hospitalization returned home.
Academic text (2008) -
We started our trip at home in Nashville, TN.
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It was to help people grow more food at home and in a most inexpensive way possible.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To or at the place where someone lives
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
at + home
The literal parts 'at' + 'home' clearly evoke location in or belonging to one's house, and the MWE's event sense plausibly arises by metonymy (a gathering held at someone's home). However, the shift from location to a noun meaning 'a formal reception' is historical and not fully predictable for an average B1 learner who knows the constituents, so prior exposure is likely needed to recover the specific social-gathering sense.
Etymology
The phrase at home comes from the simple image of being inside your home, where you live and keep your things. So it means 'in the place where you live'.