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
I I don't know, they say home of the handwritten menu.
- I I don't know, they say home of the handwritten menu.
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 place where a person was born or lived for a long time
The country where someone is born or where they feel they belong
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
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 Typical
Surface Forms
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.