to feel at home
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2.7
- phrasal verb
:
sentirse como en casa
- After a few weeks in the city, I finally feel at home in my new apartment.
- make someone feel at home
- feel at home here
- never feel at home
Some of them are comfortable, they feel at home, they know what they're looking for.
- Some of them are comfortable, they feel at home, they know what they're looking for.
- I feel your work really makes us all feel at home here, which is wonderful.
- It's like I feel at peace with her or I feel at home with her.
- We opt for things that make us feel at home and comfortable and feel familiar.
- That wasn't by any means boring because I felt at home.
- It's a huge House, Beautiful house, but I feel at home, man.
- But then that first laugh, I was like, Oh yeah, I feel at home.
- I didn't know why I was very awkward, you know, but the, the place that I felt at home and open was when I was creating.
- You have not felt comfortable or safe enough to truly be yourself or to feel at home in your identity.
- You've got a lot of different things going into why you may not feel at home in your skin.
- So the question I will answer is, should citizenship be based on those we feel at home with?
- This is just, it's just, it's just what I love doing and where I feel at home.
- And I feel extremely, I feel at home in my home for the first time and I feel at home within myself.
- Thank you guys for coming out this weekend in Wyoming, IL and and just making me feel at home even in such a small place I had a blast.
- They have somewhere where they can be cared for, you know, and they can feel at home and they can feel recognised.
- And he said they the audience simultaneously wants to be surprised and wants to be made to feel at home.
Examples
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Well, are you beginning to feel at home around here?
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I feel at home here.
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I feel your work really makes us all feel at home here, which is wonderful.
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It's like I feel at peace with her or I feel at home with her.
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Make them feel at home.
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I want you to feel at home here because this is your home now too.
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Yeah, I feel at home when I'm around you.
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He just wants to feel at home - especially on Christmas.
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Carver must feel at home in a room like this.
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Joining her new friends in the mosque, she felt at home as she never had in church.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
34
3.0
Relax and act like you are at home
31
3.1
Sit down and relax as if you are at home
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to feel comfortable and relaxed' is directly built from 'feel' (to experience) plus the locative/figurative phrase 'at home' (in one's own home / comfortable). The figurative extension of 'at home' is widespread cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'sentirse como en casa', French 'se sentir chez soi'), so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer this sense.
Etymology
Feel at home comes from the clear image of being in your own house, where you can sit back, relax, and be yourself, with home meaning a safe, familiar place; so to 'feel at home' is to feel 'comfortable and welcome' in a new place or situation.