home
- noun
- /hoʊm/
- Many people dream of owning their own home one day, where they can create happy memories.
- home school
- home environment
- family home
I can't bring you into my home like this.
- I can't bring you into my home like this.
- You can have an empty home and an empty soul.
- I'm so close to home, like a block.
- Should you rent or buy your own home and why you start?
- But they have a diminished sense of home that wounds them.
- We always had a home that allowed that.
- We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
- But today he has a home and it's off the grid.
Examples
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After a long day at work, I love coming back to my home to relax.
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Each day when I arrived at their home, all three boys were typically online.
Academic text (2015) -
So that is going to be my home for tonight.
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We always had a home that allowed that.
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-Are you at home right now?
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In school, he read only when asked; at home, he did not read at all.
Academic text (2012) -
We all came from fine homes, good homes, and good parents and people.
Academic text (2017) -
I should have just stayed at home.
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This woman came to my home, asked me to support Michael's release.
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Students may have responsibilities at home or a job that helps keep the household afloat.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
A person's home where they live
A house or other place where someone lives
A house or apartment where someone lives
A place where someone lives, like a house
The place where a person lives permanently for legal and tax purposes
A place where a person or animal lives
A house or building where people live, not a business building
Idioms
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
- Informal
To eat so much at someone's home that they have almost no food left
- Offensive
Looking awake but not paying attention or thinking clearly
Compounds
A place where older people live and receive help with daily tasks and medical care
A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
- Texting
The main page of a website that appears when you open the site or your browser
- Jargon
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
- Specialized
Care and help with medical and personal needs in a person's home for elderly or disabled people
- Offensive
A person who has a romantic relationship with someone married or in a relationship, causing it to end
- US
A set of speakers and a big screen at home for watching movies like in a cinema
- Specialized
A loan that uses the value of your house to get money for big expenses
- Literature
A senior government minister who leads the Home Office and handles security, law and immigration
- UK
A UK government department that handles immigration, security and police matters
- Formal
The right of a city or county to run its own local matters without central government control
- Formal
An official order telling people to remain at home to slow the spread of a disease
A school subject about running a home, like cooking, sewing, and managing money
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
A place where young people who have broken the law stay temporarily under court supervision
- Specialized
A regional bank that lends short-term money to local savings banks to support home loans
- Archaic
A hospital for people who cannot look after themselves because of mental illness
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Archaic
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
How Personal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Home The word home comes from an old German word heim meaning 'homestead' or 'village', giving the picture of a safe place where people live. So a home is the place where you live or feel you belong.