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UK /həʊm/ · US /hoʊm/ noun, verb, adjective, adverb, proper noun
- noun One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- noun The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; a childhood or parental home; the home of one’s parents or guardian. “Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.”
- noun The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- noun A house that has been made homelike, to suit the comfort of those who live there. “It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home”
- noun A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. “a home for outcasts”
- noun (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- noun (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- noun One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- verb (of animals, intransitive) To return to its owner. “The dog homed.”
- adjective Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. “home manufactures”
- adjective (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. “a home truth”
- adjective (obsolete) Personal, intimate.
- adjective (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). “the home end, home advantage, home supporters”
- adverb To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location. “go home”
- adverb To one's place of birth.
- adverb To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length. “She drove the nail home”
- adverb (Internet) To the home page. “Click here to go home.”
- adverb At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- adverb To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- adverb (UK, soccer) into the goal
Synonyms
tenement house dwelling abode domicile residence home base homeward place habitation dwelling house home plate plate base family household menage nursing home rest home interior internal national
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
From home.
Webster’s 1913
- noun See Homelyn.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- adjective Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Etymology [OE. hom, ham, AS. ham; akin to OS. hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. këmas, and perh. to Gr.hind a peasant; cf. Skr.ksh 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]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “home”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details