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    at home,
    1. in one's own house or place of residence.
    2. in one's own town or country.
    3. prepared or willing to receive social visits: Tell him I'm not at home. We are always at home to her.
    4. in a situation familiar to one; at ease: She has a way of making everyone feel at home.
    5. well-informed; proficient: to be at home in the classics.
    6. played in one's hometown or on one's own grounds: The Yankees played two games at home and one away.
    bring home to, to make evident to; clarify or emphasize for: The irrevocability of her decision was brought home to her.
    home and dry, British Informal. having safely achieved one's goal.
    home free,
    1. assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we'll be home free.
    2. certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free.
    write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing to write home about. His cooking is really something to write home about.

Origin of home

before 900; Middle English hom, Old English hām (noun and adv.); cognate with Dutch heim, Old Norse heimr, Danish hjem, Swedish hem, German Heim home, Gothic haims village; akin to haunt
Related formsmin·i·home, noun
Can be confusedhome house (see synonym study at house)

Synonyms for home

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1. abode, dwelling, habitation; domicile. See house. 2. hearth, fireside. 3. asylum.

Home

[hyoom]

noun

Lord. Douglas-Home.
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Related Words for home

hut, dormitory, apartment, dwelling, palace, resort, shelter, house, hospital, cottage, farm, condominium, place, trailer, residence, mansion, cabin, condo, land, neighborhood

Examples from the Web for home

Contemporary Examples of home

Historical Examples of home

  • In every American home that is a home, to-day, it demands attention.

    The Spenders

    Harry Leon Wilson

  • "He can't be at home, or else he won't come," thought the visitor.

    Brave and Bold

    Horatio Alger

  • He might in this country; he'd never do it at home, you know.

    The Spenders

    Harry Leon Wilson

  • He had a large family at home waiting his return from a Western journey.

    Brave and Bold

    Horatio Alger

  • The home of the Birkenholt family was not one of the least delightful.

    The Armourer's Prentices

    Charlotte M. Yonge

British Dictionary definitions for home

home

noun

the place or a place where one liveshave you no home to go to?
a house or other dwelling
a family or other group living in a house or other place
a person's country, city, etc, esp viewed as a birthplace, a residence during one's early years, or a place dear to one
the environment or habitat of a person or animal
the place where something is invented, founded, or developedthe US is the home of baseball
  1. a building or organization set up to care for orphans, the aged, etc
  2. an informal name for a mental home
sport one's own groundthe match is at home
  1. the objective towards which a player strives in certain sports
  2. an area where a player is safe from attack
lacrosse
  1. one of two positions of play nearest the opponents' goal
  2. a player assigned to such a positioninside home
baseball another name for home plate
NZ informal, obsolete Britain, esp England
a home from home a place other than one's own home where one can be at ease
at home
  1. in one's own home or country
  2. at ease, as if at one's own home
  3. giving an informal party at one's own home
  4. Britishsuch a party
at home in, at home on or at home with familiar or conversant with
home and dry British informal definitely safe or successfulwe will not be home and dry until the votes have been counted Austral. and NZ equivalent: home and hosed
near home concerning one deeply

adjective (usually prenominal)

of, relating to, or involving one's home, country, etc; domestic
(of an activity) done in one's househome taping
effective or deadlya home thrust
sport relating to one's own grounda home game
US central; principalthe company's home office

adverb

to or at homeI'll be home tomorrow
to or on the point
to the fullest extenthammer the nail home
(of nautical gear) into or in the best or proper positionthe boom is home
bring home to
  1. to make clear to
  2. to place the blame on
come home nautical (of an anchor) to fail to hold
come home to to become absolutely clear to
nothing to write home about informal to be of no particular interestthe film was nothing to write home about

verb

(intr) (of birds and other animals) to return home accurately from a distance
(often foll by on or onto) to direct or be directed onto a point or target, esp by automatic navigational aids
to send or go home
to furnish with or have a home
(intr; often foll by in or in on) to be directed towards a goal, target, etc
Derived Formshomelike, adjective

Word Origin for home

Old English hām; related to Old Norse heimr, Gothic haims, Old High German heim, Dutch heem, Greek kōmi village

Home

noun

Baron See Home of the Hirsel
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for home
n.

Old English ham "dwelling, house, estate, village," from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (cf. Old Frisian hem "home, village," Old Norse heimr "residence, world," heima "home," Danish hjem, Middle Dutch heem, German heim "home," Gothic haims "village"), from PIE root *tkei- "to settle, dwell, be home" (cf. Sanskrit kseti "abides, dwells," Armenian shen "inhabited," Greek kome, Lithuanian kaimas "village;" Old Church Slavonic semija "domestic servants").

'Home' in the full range and feeling of [Modern English] home is a conception that belongs distinctively to the word home and some of its Gmc. cognates and is not covered by any single word in most of the IE languages. [Buck]

Home stretch (1841) is originally a reference from horse racing. Home base in baseball attested by 1859 (home plate by 1867; home as the goal in a sport or game is from 1778). Home economics first attested 1899. Slang phrase make (oneself) at home "become comfortable in a place one does not live" dates from 1892. To keep the home fires burning is from a song title from 1914. To be nothing to write home about "unremarkable" is from 1907. Home movie is from 1919; home computer is from 1967.

v.

1765, "to go home," from home (n.). Meaning "be guided to a destination by radio signals, etc. (of missiles, aircraft, etc.) is from 1920; it had been used earlier in reference to pigeons (1862). Related: Homed; homing. Old English had hamian "to establish in a home."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with home

home

In addition to the idioms beginning with home

  • home free
  • home in on
  • home run
  • home truth

also see:

  • at home
  • bring home
  • bring home the bacon
  • chickens come home to roost
  • close to home

Drive Homeeat someone out of house and homemake oneself at homenobody homenothing to write home abouttill the cows come home.

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