to home
- verb
- /hoʊm/
- Following the accident, the social worker decided to home the child in a safe environment.
Examples
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And so he sent me home with some paper.
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And so he sent me home with some paper.
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Now those in favour of sending Sandy home, please raise your hand.
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Intrigued, she agreed to accompany Tristan home and marry his king.
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After wandering through the desert for several days, Chris finally sends Ashley home and surprise, she cries or laughs.
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After a long day at school, the teacher agreed to home the students who needed extra help.
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The charity aims to home abandoned pets in loving families.
Synonyms
To make a place your official home for legal and tax purposes
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
Phrasal Verbs
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 Settled
Surface Forms
Etymology
Home To 'home' someone (to put them into a home) is a modern use from the old heim idea of giving someone a place to live, so to home a person is to find them a house or place where they belong. That is why 'home' can be used as an action of placing someone in a home.