Word: Home
How to pronounce: həʊm
Noun
Definitions:
1. The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.
Example sentences: "I was nineteen when I left home and went to college"
2. An institution for people needing professional care or supervision.
Example sentences: "An old people's home"
3. (in sports) the goal or end point.
Example sentences: "He was four fences from home"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Relating to the place where one lives.
Example sentences: "I don't have your home address"
2. (of a sports game) played at the team's own field or court.
Example sentences: "Their first home game of the season"
3. Denoting the administrative center of an organization.
Example sentences: "The company has moved its home office"
Adverb
Definitions:
1. To or at the place where one lives.
Example sentences: "What time did he get home last night?"
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. (of an animal) return by instinct to its territory after leaving it.
Example sentences: "A dozen geese homing to their summer nesting grounds"
2. Move or be aimed toward (a target or destination) with great accuracy.
Example sentences: "More than 100 missiles were launched, homing in on radar emissions"
Synonyms:
house
household
place
family
cottage
tenement
nursing home
native land
fatherland
motherland
cradle
the native land
country
at home
residence
lodging
mansion
domicile
roof
return home
take home
hearth
hearthstone
fireside
habitation
dwelling
abode
habitat
quarters
pad
diggings
home base
base
rest home
Antonyms:
homeless
Derivations:
homey
homely
homed
homeland
Homer
homewards
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Home in Other Languages...
Spanish: Casa
German: Startseite
French: Maison
Italian: Casa
Turkish: Evde
