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home

  [hohm] noun, adjective, adverb, verb, homed, hom⋅ing.
Use home in a Sentence
–noun
1. a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
2. the place in which one's domestic affections are centered.
3. an institution for the homeless, sick, etc.: a nursing home.
4. the dwelling place or retreat of an animal.
5. the place or region where something is native or most common.
6. any place of residence or refuge: a heavenly home.
7. a person's native place or own country.
8. (in games) the destination or goal.
9. a principal base of operations or activities: The new stadium will be the home of the local football team.
10. Baseball. home plate.
11. Lacrosse. one of three attack positions nearest the opposing goal.
–adjective
12. of, pertaining to, or connected with one's home or country; domestic: home products.
13. principal or main: the corporation's home office.
14. reaching the mark aimed at: a home thrust.
15. Sports. played in a ball park, arena, or the like, that is or is assumed to be the center of operations of a team: The pitcher didn't lose a single home game all season. Compare away (def. 11).
–adverb
16. to, toward, or at home: to go home.
17. deep; to the heart: The truth of the accusation struck home.
18. to the mark or point aimed at: He drove the point home.
19. Nautical.
a. into the position desired; perfectly or to the greatest possible extent: sails sheeted home.
b. in the proper, stowed position: The anchor is home.
c. toward its vessel: to bring the anchor home.
–verb (used without object)
20. to go or return home.
21. (of guided missiles, aircraft, etc.) to proceed, esp. under control of an automatic aiming mechanism, toward a specified target, as a plane, missile, or location (often fol. by in on): The missile homed in on the target.
22. to navigate toward a point by means of coordinates other than those given by altitudes.
23. to have a home where specified; reside.
–verb (used with object)
24. to bring or send home.
25. to provide with a home.
26. to direct, esp. under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc.
—Idioms
27. at home,
a. in one's own house or place of residence.
b. in one's own town or country.
c. prepared or willing to receive social visits: Tell him I'm not at home. We are always at home to her.
d. in a situation familiar to one; at ease: She has a way of making everyone feel at home.
e. well-informed; proficient: to be at home in the classics.
f. played in one's hometown or on one's own grounds: The Yankees played two games at home and one away.
28. bring home to, to make evident to; clarify or emphasize for: The irrevocability of her decision was brought home to her.
29. home and dry, British Informal. having safely achieved one's goal.
30. home free,
a. assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we'll be home free.
b. certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free.
31. write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing to write home about. His cooking is really something to write home about.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME hom, OE hām (n. and adv.); c. D heim, ON heimr, Dan hjem, Sw hem, G Heim home, Goth haims village; akin to haunt

Synonyms:
1. abode, dwelling, habitation; domicile. See house. 2. hearth, fireside. 3. asylum.
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Home

  [hyoom]
–noun
Lord. Douglas-Home.

home plate

 
–noun Baseball.
the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
Also called home, the plate, home base.

Origin:
1870–75, Americanism
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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home   (hōm)   
n.  
  1. A place where one lives; a residence.
  2. The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
  3. A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
    1. An environment offering security and happiness.
    2. A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.
    3. Baseball Home plate.
    4. Games Home base.
    5. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
    6. 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.
  5. The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period.
  6. The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
  7. The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
  8. A headquarters; a home base.
    1. Baseball Home plate.
    2. Games Home base.
    3. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
    4. 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.
  10. An institution where people are cared for: a home for the elderly.
  11. Computer Science
    1. The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
    2. 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.  
    1. Of or relating to a home, especially to one's household or house: home cooking; home furnishings.
    2. Taking place in the home: home care for the elderly.
  2. Of, relating to, or being a place of origin or headquarters: the home office.
  3. Sports Relating to a team's sponsoring institution or to the place where it is franchised: a home game; the home field advantage.
  4. 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.  
  1. At, to, or toward the direction of home: going home for lunch.
  2. On or into the point at which something is directed: The arrow struck home.
  3. To the center or heart of something; deeply: Your comments really hit home.
v.   homed, hom·ing, homes

v.   intr.
  1. To go or return to one's residence or base of operations.
  2. To be guided to a target automatically, as by means of radio waves.
  3. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Home

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

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.

Home

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.

Home

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.

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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : home
Spanish: casa,
German: die Heimat,
Japanese: 家
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home 
O.E. ham "dwelling, house, estate, village," from P.Gmc. *khaim- (cf. O.Fris. hem "home, village," O.N. heimr "residence, world," heima "home," Ger. heim "home," Goth. haims "village"), from PIE base *kei- "to lie, settle down" (cf. Gk. kome, Lith. kaimas "village;" O.C.S. semija "domestic servants").
" 'Home' in the full range and feeling of NE home is a conception that belongs distinctively to the word home and some of its Gmc. cognates and is not covered by any single word in most of the IE languages." [Buck]
The verb meaning "to be guided to a destination by radio signals, etc. (of missiles, aircraft, etc.) is from 1920; it had been used earlier in ref. to homing pigeons (1875). Home stretch (1841) is originally a reference from horse racing. Homebody is from 1821. Homeroom in the U.S. schools sense is first recorded 1915. Home-made is from 1659. Homeland first recorded 1670. Homeless is from 1615. Home economics first attested 1899. Homespun is from 1590 in the literal sense of "spun at home; 1600 in the fig. sense of "plain, homely." Home page first attested 1993. Slang phrase make (oneself) at home "become comfortable in a place one does not live" dates from 1892. To keep the home fires burning is from a song title from 1914.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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