English dictionary
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English adjective: home | |||
| 1. | home used of your own ground | ||
| Samples | A home game. | ||
| Domain category | athletics, sport | ||
| Antonyms | away | ||
| 2. | home relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are | ||
| Samples | My home town. | ||
| 3. | home inside the country | ||
| Samples | The British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior. The nation's internal politics. | ||
| Synonyms | interior, internal, national | ||
| Similar | domestic | ||
| Antonyms | foreign | ||
English noun: home | |||
| 1. | home (location) where you live at a particular time | ||
| Samples | Deliver the package to my home. He doesn't have a home to go to. Your place or mine?. | ||
| Synonyms | place | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | abode, residence | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | home away from home, home from home | ||
| 2. | home (artifact) housing that someone is living in | ||
| Samples | He built a modest dwelling near the pond. They raise money to provide homes for the homeless. | ||
| Synonyms | abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | housing, living accommodations, lodging | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cliff dwelling, condo, condominium, fireside, fixer-upper, hearth, hermitage, homestead, house, indian lodge, lake dwelling, lodge, messuage, pile dwelling, semi-detached house, vacation home, yurt | ||
| Part holonym | bath, 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 (location) the country or state or city where you live | ||
| Samples | Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home. His home is New Jersey. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | location | ||
| 4. | home (artifact) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score | ||
| Samples | He ruled that the runner failed to touch home. | ||
| Synonyms | home base, home plate, plate | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bag, base | ||
| Domain category | baseball, baseball game | ||
| 5. | home (location) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | ||
| Synonyms | base | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | location | ||
| 6. | home (location) place where something began and flourished | ||
| Samples | The United States is the home of basketball. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning, origin, root, rootage, source | ||
| 7. | home (state) an environment offering affection and security | ||
| Samples | Home is where the heart is. He grew up in a good Christian home. There's no place like home. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | environment | ||
| 8. | home (group) a social unit living together | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | family, house, household, menage | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | social unit, unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | broken home, conjugal family, extended family, foster family, foster home, menage a trois, nuclear family | ||
| 9. | home (artifact) an institution where people are cared for | ||
| Samples | A home for the elderly. | ||
| Synonyms | nursing home, rest home | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | institution | ||
English adverb: home | |||
| 1. | home at or to or in the direction of one's home or family | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| 2. | home on or to the point aimed at | ||
| Samples | The arrow struck home. | ||
| 3. | home to the fullest extent; to the heart | ||
| Samples | Drove the nail home. Drove his point home. His comments hit home. | ||
English verb: home | |||
| 1. | home (social) provide with, or send to, a home | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | domiciliate, house, put up | ||
| 2. | home (motion) return home accurately from a long distance | ||
| Samples | Homing pigeons. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | return | ||
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