home

Adjective

• inside the country
  • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
    
  • the nation's internal politics
    

• relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
  • my home town
    

• used of your own ground
  • a home game
    

Verb

• return home accurately from a long distance
  • homing pigeons
    

• provide with, or send to, a home

Noun

• an institution where people are cared for
  • a home for the elderly
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• place where something began and flourished
  • the United States is the home of basketball
    

• the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

• (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
    

• 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
    

• housing that someone is living in
  • he built a modest dwelling near the pond
    
  • they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
    

• where you live at a particular time
  • deliver the package to my home
    
  • he doesn't have a home to go to
    
  • your place or mine?
    

Adverb

• to the fullest extent; to the heart
  • drove the nail home
    
  • drove his point home
    
  • his comments hit home
    

• on or to the point aimed at
  • the arrow struck home
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  home(a) , interior(a) , internal , national , nursing home , rest home , family , household , house , menage , base , home plate , home base , plate , dwelling , domicile , abode , habitation , dwelling house , place