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Engelsk adjektiv: home

1. home used of your own ground


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningA home game.


Overordnet kategoriathletics, sport


Uttrykk med motsatt betydning (antonymer)away

2. home relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningMy home town.

3. home inside the country


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior.
The nation's internal politics.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)interior, internal, national


Uttrykk med lignende betydningdomestic


Uttrykk med motsatt betydning (antonymer)foreign


Engelsk substantiv: home

1. home (om sted) where you live at a particular time


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningDeliver the package to my home.
He doesn't have a home to go to.
Your place or mine?.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)place


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkabode, residence


Mere spesifikke uttrykkhome away from home, home from home

2. home (om gjenstand) housing that someone is living in


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningHe built a modest dwelling near the pond.
They raise money to provide homes for the homeless.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkhousing, living accommodations, lodging


Mere spesifikke uttrykkcliff dwelling, condo, condominium, fireside, fixer-upper, hearth, hermitage, homestead, house, indian lodge, lake dwelling, lodge, messuage, pile dwelling, semi-detached house, vacation home, yurt


Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykkbath, bathroom, bedchamber, bedroom, chamber, den, dinette, dining room, dining-room, dressing room, family room, front room, kitchen, living room, living-room, parlor, parlour, sitting room, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room

3. home (om sted) the country or state or city where you live


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningCanadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home.
His home is New Jersey.


Mindre spesifikke uttrykklocation

4. home (om gjenstand) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningHe ruled that the runner failed to touch home.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)home base, home plate, plate


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkbag, base


Overordnet kategoribaseball, baseball game

5. home (om sted) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)base


Mindre spesifikke uttrykklocation

6. home (om sted) place where something began and flourished


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe United States is the home of basketball.


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkbeginning, origin, root, rootage, source

7. home (om tilstand) an environment offering affection and security


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningHome is where the heart is.
He grew up in a good Christian home.
There's no place like home.


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkenvironment

8. home (om gruppe) a social unit living together


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningHe 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.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)family, house, household, menage


Mindre spesifikke uttrykksocial unit, unit


Mere spesifikke uttrykkbroken home, conjugal family, extended family, foster family, foster home, menage a trois, nuclear family

9. home (om gjenstand) an institution where people are cared for


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningA home for the elderly.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)nursing home, rest home


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkinstitution


Engelsk adverb: home

1. home at or to or in the direction of one's home or family


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningHe 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.

2. home on or to the point aimed at


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe arrow struck home.

3. home to the fullest extent; to the heart


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningDrove the nail home.
Drove his point home.
His comments hit home.


Engelsk verb: home

1. home (om adferd) provide with, or send to, a home


AnvendelsesmønsterSomebody ----s somebody


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkdomiciliate, house, put up

2. home (om bevegelse) return home accurately from a long distance


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningHoming pigeons.


AnvendelsesmønsterSomething ----s.
Somebody ----s


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkreturn









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