home
//həʊm//
Forms
- Plural
- homes
- present (v1)
- home
- past (v2)
- homed
- past participle (v3)
- homed
- present participle
- homing
- 3rd person singular
- homes
Definitions
1.A dwelling.
- Our grandmama's moved into a home.
- Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
- The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".
2.One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?
- I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
3.The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
- Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
4.A focus point.
- The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
1.To return to its owner.
1.Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
2.Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
1.To one's home.
- Click here to go home.
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #255
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates