'Home' definitions:

Definition of 'home'

From: WordNet
adverb
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"
adverb
On or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
adverb
To the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
adjective
Used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away]
adjective
Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town"
adjective
Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national]
noun
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?" [syn: home, place]
noun
Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house]
noun
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"
noun
(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" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate]
noun
The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home]
noun
Place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"
noun
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"
noun
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" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage]
noun
An institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home]
verb
Provide with, or send to, a home
verb
Return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"

Definition of 'Home'

From: GCIDE
  • Home \Home\ (h[=o]m), n. (Zool.) See Homelyn. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Home'

From: GCIDE
  • Home \Home\ (h[=o]m; 110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to OS. h[=e]m, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k["e]mas, and perh. to Gr. kw`mh village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr. ksh[=e]ma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. [root]20, 220.]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The disciples went away again to their own home. --John xx. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home. --Payne. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]." --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. [1913 Webster]
  • He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. [1913 Webster]
  • Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. [1913 Webster]
  • Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. --Eccl. xii. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Baseball) The home base; as, he started for home. [1913 Webster]
  • At home. (a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers.
  • Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.]
  • To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it.
  • To feel at home, to be at one's ease.
  • To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.
  • Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Home'

From: GCIDE
  • Home \Home\, a.
  • 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as: (a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same as home base and home plate. (b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Home base or Home plate (Baseball), the base at which the batter stands when batting, and which is the last base to be reached in scoring a run.
  • Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.
  • Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.]
  • Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament.
  • Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule.
  • Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.
  • Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Home'

From: GCIDE
  • Home \Home\, adv.
  • 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Close; closely. [1913 Webster]
  • How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • They come home to men's business and bosoms. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. [1913 Webster]
  • Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • To bring home. See under Bring.
  • To come home. (a) To touch or affect personally. See under Come. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.
  • To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'home'

From: GCIDE
  • home \home\ (h[=o]m), v. i.
  • 1. To return home. [PJC]
  • 2. To proceed toward an object or location intended as a target; -- of missiles which can change course in flight under internal or external control; usually used with in on; as, the missile homed in on the radar site. [PJC]
  • 3. [fig.] To arrive at or get closer to an object sought or an intended goal; used with in on; as, the repairman quickly homed in on the cause of the malfunction. [PJC]

Definition of 'home'

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Synonyms of 'home'

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Words containing 'Home'