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A family enjoys a quiet evening at home.

Definition

Noun:
- A place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household: The primary residence of a person or family.
- An institution providing care or residence for a specific group: A place for people who need care, such as the elderly or orphans.
- The place where something originates or is most common: The native environment or source of something.
- In sports, the goal or safe area: In games like baseball, the final base that a runner must touch to score.
Adjective:
- Relating to one's own dwelling, country, or domestic affairs: Connected to the place where one lives or to internal matters.
- Done or based at one's own location: Referring to an event taking place in one's own town or on one's own ground.
Adverb:
- To or at the place where one lives: Moving toward or being at one's residence.
- To the fullest or most effective extent: Completely or in a way that is deeply felt or understood.
Verb:
- To return to one's place of residence: To go back home.
- To provide with a home: To give someone or something a place to live.
- To be guided toward a target or destination: To move accurately toward a specific point, often used for animals or missiles.

Examples of Usage

Noun:
- She returned to her home after a long day at work.
- The charity built a home for the elderly.
- New Orleans is considered the home of jazz.
- The runner slid into home to score the winning run.
Adjective:
- We watched the home team win the championship.
- The company focuses on the home market before expanding abroad.
Adverb:
- He drove home after the party.
- Her criticism really hit home and made me reconsider.
Verb:
- The pigeons home in on their loft with incredible accuracy.
- The organization works to home stray animals.

Advanced Usage

"To be/feel at home": To feel comfortable and relaxed in a place or situation.
- Even though it was her first day, she felt completely at home in the new office.
"To bring something home to someone": To make someone fully understand or realize something, especially an unpleasant truth.
- The documentary brought home the devastating effects of climate change.
"Home in on": To move directly and accurately toward a target or to focus attention on something.
- The detective homed in on the key piece of evidence.

Variants and Related Words

Homely (adj): Simple but comfortable, like a home; (in British English) plain or unattractive in appearance.
Homeless (adj): Without a home.
Homemade (adj): Made at home, not commercially produced.
Homeward (adv): Going toward home.

Synonyms

Related Phrasal Verbs

Home in on: To direct one's attention or move toward a target.
- The missile homed in on the heat signature.
Make yourself at home: An invitation for a guest to relax and behave as if in their own home.
- Please, come in and make yourself at home.

Related Idioms

"Home is where the heart is": One's true home is with the people or in the place one loves most.
"There's no place like home": Expresses the sentiment that one's own home is the best and most comfortable place.
"Nothing to write home about": Not particularly interesting or impressive.
- The movie was okay, but it was nothing to write home about.
"Charity begins at home": One should take care of one's own family and community before helping others.

A family enjoys a quiet evening at 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

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

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