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What's The Definition Of Home?
[n] housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
[n] an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [n] (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [n] a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [n] the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" [n] the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [n] where you live; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [n] place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" [n] an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" [adv] at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" [adv] to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" [adv] on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" [adj] having controlling authority; where important decisions are made; "home base"; "home ofice" [adj] relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" [v] return home accurately from a long distance, as of some birds; "homing pigeons" [v] provide with, or send to, a home Synonyms | Synonyms for Home: abode | base | domicile | dwelling | dwelling house | family | habitation | home plate | house | household | menage | nursing home | place | plate | rest home Related Terms | Find terms related to Home: a better place | abode | accessible | adept in | afterlife | afterworld | almshouse | ancestral halls | asylum | at ease | at home | available | bailiwick | base hospital | birthplace | chimney corner | clinic | comfortable | commorancy | community hospital | composed | convalescent home | convalescent hospital | conversant with | cosy | cradle | cuttingly | deeply | destiny | diggings | digs | domal | domestic | domicile | domiciliary | dwelling | effectively | emphasize | eternal home | evacuation hospital | familiar with | family | family homestead | fate | fatherland | field hospital | fireplace | fireside | foster home | foyer | future state | general hospital | habitat | habitation | halfway house | harshly | haunt | haven | hearth | hearth and home | hearthstone | Heaven | home place | home roof | home sweet home | homeground | homeland | homestead | homewards | hospice | hospital | hospitium | house | household | impress upon | in | infirmary | ingle | inglenook | ingleside | inland | inpatient clinic | institution | internal | intestine | la patrie | life after death | life to come | living quarters | locality | lodgings | maison de sante | make clear | manorial | mansional | menage | mental hospital | mother country | motherland | municipal | national | native | native environment | native land | native soil | next world | nursing home | orphanage | osteopathic hospital | otherworld | outpatient clinic | palatial | Paradise | paternal roof | patria | peaceful | place | placid | policlinic | polyclinic | poor farm | poorhouse | postexistence | private hospital | proficient in | profoundly | proprietary hospital | public hospital | range | refuge | relaxed | residence | residency | residential | residentiary | rest home | retreat | roof | rooftree | sanatorium | serene | severely | shelter | sick bay | sickbed | sickroom | site | skilled in | snug harbor | soil | special hospital | stamping | station hospital | stress | surgical hospital | teaching hospital | tellingly | territory | the beyond | the good hereafter | the grave | the great beyond | the great hereafter | the hereafter | the old country | the unknown | toft | tranquil | untroubled | up on | VA hospital | Vaterland | veterans hospital | voluntary hospital | ward | welcoming | well-baby clinic | what bodes | what is fated | workhouse | world to come See Also | abode | bag | base | bath | bathroom | bedchamber | bedroom | beginning | chamber | cliff dwelling | come back | condo | condominium | conjugal family | den | dining room | diningroom | domiciliate | dressing room | environment | extended family | family room | fireside | fixer-upper | foster home | front room | get back | go back | hearth | hermitage | home away from home | home from home | homestead | house | house | housing | indian lodge | institution | kitchen | lake dwelling | living accommodations | living room | livingroom | location | lodge | lodging | menage a trois | messuage | nuclear family | origin | parlor | parlour | pile dwelling | put up | residence | return | root | rootage | semi-detached house | sitting room | sleeping room | social unit | source | unit | vacation home Home In Webster's Dictionary \Home\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
See {Homelyn}.
\Home\ (110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to OS. hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k["e]mas, and perh. to Gr.? village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr. ksh?ma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. ?, ? ] 1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace. The disciples went away again to their own home. --John xx. 10. Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home. --Payne. 2. One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. ``Our old home [England].'' --Hawthorne. 3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. --Byron. 4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. --Tennyson. Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior. 5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. --Eccl. xii. 5. 6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home. {At home}. (a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. {Home department}, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] {To be at home on any subject}, to be conversant or familiar with it. {To feel at home}, to be at one's ease. {To make one's self at home}, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home. Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile. \Home\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. 2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. {Home base} (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run. {Home farm}, {grounds}, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner. {Home lot}, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.] {Home rule}, rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament. {Home ruler}, one who favors or advocates home rule. {Home run} (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base. {Home stretch} (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post. {Home thrust}, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack. \Home\, adv. 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home. 2. Close; closely. How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. --South. They come home to men's business and bosoms. --Bacon. 3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. --Shak. Note: Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc. {To bring home}. See under {Bring}. {To come home}. (a) To touch or affect personally. See under {Come}. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor. {To haul home the sheets of a sail} (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole. --Totten. \Home\, n. In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as: (a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands. (b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player. |
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