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home       (hōm)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A place where one lives; a residence. The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment. A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household. An environment offering security and happiness. A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin. Baseball Home plate. Games Home base. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen. A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list. The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period. The native habitat, as of a plant or animal. The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source. A headquarters; a home base. Baseball Home plate. Games Home base. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen. A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list. An institution where people are cared for: a home for the elderly. Computer Science The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen. A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list. adj.   Of or relating to a home, especially to one's household or house: home cooking; home furnishings. Taking place in the home: home care for the elderly. Of, relating to, or being a place of origin or headquarters: the home office. Sports Relating to a team's sponsoring institution or to the place where it is franchised: a home game; the home field advantage. Of, relating to, or being the keys used as base positions for the fingers in touch-typing: The home row on a standard keyboard consists of the keys for A, S, D, F, J, K, L, and ;. adv.   At, to, or toward the direction of home: going home for lunch. On or into the point at which something is directed: The arrow struck home. To the center or heart of something; deeply: Your comments really hit home. v.   homed, hom·ing, homes v.   intr. To go or return to one's residence or base of operations. To be guided to a target automatically, as by means of radio waves. To move or lead toward a goal: The investigators were homing in on the truth. v.   tr. To guide (a missile or aircraft) to a target automatically. [Middle English, from Old English hām; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]

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home
adjective
1.	used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away]
2.	relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town"
3.	inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"
adverb
1.	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"
2.	on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
3.	to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
noun
1.	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?"
2.	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]
3.	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"
4.	(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]
5.	the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base]
6.	place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"
7.	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"
8.	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]
9.	an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly"
verb
1.	provide with, or send to, a home
2.	return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"

American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

home

In addition to the idioms beginning with home, also see at home; bring home; bring home the bacon; chickens come home to roost; close to home Drive Home; eat someone out of house and home; make oneself at home; nobody home; nothing to write home about; till the cows come home.

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Home Gardens, CA (CDP, FIPS 34302) Location: 33.88090 N, 117.51315 W
Population (1990): 7780 (2042 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Home Garden, CA (CDP, FIPS 34281) Location: 36.30332 N, 119.63525 W
Population (1990): 1549 (415 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Mountain Home A, ID Zip code(s): 83648

Mountain Home AFB, ID (CDP, FIPS 54820) Location: 43.04962 N, 115.86553 W
Population (1990): 5936 (1528 housing units)
Area: 25.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Home, WA Zip code(s): 98349

Home, PA Zip code(s): 15747

Home, KS Zip code(s): 66438

Garden Home-Whitford, OR (CDP, FIPS 27825) Location: 45.46513 N, 122.75683 W
Population (1990): 6652 (2717 housing units)
Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Prairie Home, MO (city, FIPS 59726) Location: 38.81494 N, 92.58957 W
Population (1990): 215 (101 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 65068

Otterbien Home, OH Zip code(s): 45036

Mountain Home, UT Zip code(s): 84051

Mountain Home, TX Zip code(s): 78058

Mountain Home, ID (city, FIPS 54730) Location: 43.13834 N, 115.68869 W
Population (1990): 7913 (3392 housing units)
Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 83647

Mountain Home, AR (city, FIPS 47390) Location: 36.33592 N, 92.37917 W
Population (1990): 9027 (4561 housing units)
Area: 17.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 72653

Forest Home, AL Zip code(s): 36030

Mission Home, VA Zip code(s): 22940

Highland Home, AL Zip code(s): 36041

Garden Home, OR Zip code(s): 97223

Sweet Home, OR (city, FIPS 71950) Location: 44.40169 N, 122.70212 W
Population (1990): 6850 (2834 housing units)
Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97386

Mountain Home, NC (CDP, FIPS 44700) Location: 35.36992 N, 82.50443 W
Population (1990): 1898 (868 housing units)
Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

New Home, TX (city, FIPS 51012) Location: 33.32731 N, 101.91076 W
Population (1990): 175 (71 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Forest Home, NY (CDP, FIPS 26561) Location: 42.45309 N, 76.47181 W
Population (1990): 1125 (458 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Home

Home\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Homelyn.

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Home

Home\ (110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to OS. hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k["e]mas, and perh. to Gr.? village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr. ksh?ma 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]." --Hawthorne.

3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. --Byron.

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.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. --Tennyson.

Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior.

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.

Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. --Eccl. xii. 5.

6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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Home\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

Home base (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making 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 run (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base.

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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Home\, adv. 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

2. Close; closely.

How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. --South.

They come home to men's business and bosoms. --Bacon.

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.

Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. --Shak.

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.

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.

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Home

Home\, n. In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as: (a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands. (b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.