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homemade

homemade

179 1.3
Made at home rather than bought from a store
  • adjective
  • /ˈhoʊmˌmeɪd/
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  • She surprised her friends with homemade jam that she made from the berries she picked last summer.
  • homemade food
  • homemade jam
  • homemade pizza

Good. Oh wow, it's it's their homemade almond milk in here, right?

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Examples

  • No, they're drinking mostly homemade wine with friends or with a meal.

  • So we're back with the ingredients for homemade ice cream.

  • Because I would like to make you a homemade dinner.

  • We thought it would be nice to bring him a nice homemade lunch.

  • So I'm going to make you a homemade from scratch chicken pie.

  • So I made some homemade chili oil recently.

  • He made us this delicious homemade bread and of course coffee.

  • Without thinking, I said, "I haven't had homemade chicken soup for 50 years or more."

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Now tonight you'll be making homemade sausages.

  • So today we are going to be making a delicious homemade gingerbread cookie recipe.

Synonyms

self-produced
vshomemade
1 4.7

Made by a person without outside help

specifies production at a person's residence rather than merely personal effort
homebuilt
vshomemade
4.1

Made at home by someone, not in a factory

focuses on being produced at a person's residence across many product types

Antonyms

601 3.7

Made to earn money rather than for art

26 2.3

People buy it in a shop or store instead of making it at home

1 3.1

Made by machines in large numbers rather than by hand

Compounds

A sweet holiday drink made at home from milk and eggs

People mix alcohol and vanilla beans at home to add flavor to recipes

A snack someone bakes at home for a dog

A spicy Korean vegetable dish made at home by fermenting vegetables

How Skillful

masterpiece
156 3.8
artisan
55 4.1
handicraft
4 3.5
homemade
179 1.3

Surface Forms

homemade positive

Morphology

homemade = home + made (transparent) = home + made

The meaning is directly derived from 'home' + 'made' (made at home); an average learner can compose the meaning from the components.

Etymology

Homemade is just the simple parts home and made, so it literally means 'made at home'. That's why homemade tells you a food or object was made in a person's house, not in a factory or bought in a shop.