home
- noun
- /hoʊm/
- The museum is a wonderful place, showcasing art from many cultures around the world, but its home is right here in the city center.
- home to cities
- home to millions
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Examples
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North Carolina is famous as the state that is home to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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The area near Houston is already the home of several wind energy companies.
Academic text (2011) -
And why is this home so cold?
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The land of the free, but the home of the brave.
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Tell me about your home.
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North Carolina, home to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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The NYIB opened in 1832 and provided a home and education for students ages eight to twenty-five.
Academic text (2015) -
The small town was proud to be the home of the annual music festival, attracting visitors from all over the country.
Synonyms
The country where someone is born or where they feel they belong
The place where a person was born or lived for a long time
A place where an idea, activity, or movement first started
A place where a person or group feels most comfortable and at ease
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
An area where an animal usually lives and moves
A house or piece of land where someone grew up and that has family memories
Idioms
- 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
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
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
- Specialized
Care and help with medical and personal needs in a person's home for elderly or disabled people
- Jargon
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
- 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
- US
A classroom where students meet each morning for attendance and school notices with their teacher
- 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
A school subject about running a home, like cooking, sewing, and managing money
- Specialized
A loan that uses the value of your home as security for big costs
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
- Specialized
A regional bank that lends short-term money to local savings banks to support home loans
A place where young people who have broken the law stay temporarily under court supervision
- Archaic
A hospital for people who cannot look after themselves because of mental illness
How Typical
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Etymology
Home Saying a place is the 'home of' something comes from heim meaning 'place' or 'origin', so calling a city the 'home of' an invention means it began or grew strong there. That is why 'home' can mean the place where something started or is typical.