to feel like home
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3.7
- phrasal verb
:
sentirse como en casa
- After settling in for a few weeks, this cozy apartment finally feels like home to me.
- really feel like home
- still feels like home
- make it feel like home
So I think being an outsider is what felt like home to me.
- So I think being an outsider is what felt like home to me.
- And the things that feel like home to us or familiar to us couldn't be terrible.
- Where we go, where these leaves land or a land that feels like home.
- But she planted the seed that when I first stepped on the wrestling mat, it felt like home.
- He'll be like man this feels like home come on man please brother.
- You know, to me it's not surprising because one of the things we gravitate toward is what feels like home, what feels familiar, even if it's not good, even if it's painful.
- Over here is the only place feels like home, right?
- To our home to go feels good, To be back on the plane feels like home.
- And for Sam Samweller, for Samweller, there might be a survival instinct that's showing up that's making someone feel like home.
Examples
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For the first time, Pinetree, Wyoming, felt like home.
Fiction book (2002) -
I just woke up today and it just felt like home.
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This feels like home right here.
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It's just... starting to feel like home.
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Does he feel like home to you?
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Well, it felt like home.
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I think it matters very much living in a place that feels like home.
Blog text (3) -
And these new places feel like home.
Fiction book (1997) -
It started to feel like home.
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It already feels like home.
Synonyms
41
2.7
Be comfortable and relaxed as if in your own home
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to give a sense of comfort or belonging' is directly derivable from combining 'feel' (experience) with 'like' (similar to) and 'home' (one's dwelling); the phrase is a simple comparative/simile construction. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English grammar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase feel like home comes from the simple image of being in your own house: you feel safe, warm and relaxed at home. So, it now means 'to give a sense of comfort and belonging'.