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Meaning home meaning

What does home mean?
Definitions in simple English

home Noun

— Where a person lives. Usually, where people keep their things that they are not carrying, and where they sleep.

home Preposition

— If you go home, you go to the place where you live. He brought the money straight home to his mother. — If you are home, you are in the place where you live. I'm home all evening, so give me a call.

home

— 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 — noun (= place) 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? — noun (= dwelling) housing that someone is living in he built a modest dwelling near the pond they raise money to provide homes for the homeless — 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 — adjective used of your own ground a home game — adjective relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are my home town — 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 — adverb on or to the point aimed at the arrow struck home — noun (= base) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end — noun place where something began and flourished the United States is the home of basketball — adverb to the fullest extent; to the heart drove the nail home drove his point home his comments hit home — 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 an institution where people are cared for a home for the elderly — adjective (= interior, internal) inside the country the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior the nation's internal politics — verb provide with, or send to, a home — verb return home accurately from a long distance homing pigeons — noun (= family, household, house) 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

Synonyms home synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as home?

home English » English

house residence dwelling abode family household place domicile native land habitation domestic homeland shelter building habitat dwelling house country camp at home accommodation motherland homeward fatherland village place of residence nest hut hearth birthplace homestead room place of origin native mansion interior housing hometown home base dwelling-place dwelling place compound asylum whereabouts town roof rest home residency refuge quarters plate

Topics home topics

What do people use home to talk about?
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

House
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Happy

Relaxed
Person Life Stage of life

Old person
Social behavior Conflict War

Win
Person Healthy Treat disease

Hospital
Daily life

Live, stay
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Earn

  • What words refer to earning a certain amount of money after taxes have been taken out?
    take home net clear
Physical actions Move Travel

Move to a new house
Grammar Case Primary cases Spatial location of an event

Origin (of a person)

  • What words refer to the place where a person is from?
    home town

Conjugation home conjugation

How do you conjugate home?

home · verb

Examples home examples

How do I use home in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Why don't we go home?
You must go home at once.
I'm fixing the radio which I found on my way home.
There is no place like home.
I'll drive you home.
Let us go home.
I made my whole family leave home.
I'd rather stay home than go alone.
I stayed home for a week.
It's already time to go home.
Bob will be home at six.
Tom came home early yesterday.
Please come home as quickly as possible.
I'll arrange for someone to pick you up at your home.
Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.
Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations at home.
Make yourself at home.
Please make yourself at home.
You are free to go home.
You can get in touch with him at his home tonight.
Will you stay at home?
You will stay at home.
You should have come home before.
You may go home now.
Do you feel at home anywhere?
You'd better go home as soon as possible.
You should apologize to Dad for not coming home in time for supper.
I'll call them tomorrow when I return home.
You should return home before it gets dark.

Movie subtitles

I'll drive Minjoo home and come back.
You were home?
I'm not broadcasting.I'm going home.
Welcome home, Lelouch.
Welcome home, brother.
I'm home.
Or was it just Confucian suspicion of the so-caIIed strange things that admiral Zheng He had brought home with him?
When the new emperor called home Zheng He's mighty navy, he virtually guaranteed that it wouId be the West's version of civilization that would sweep the globe.
When he and his fellow sailors rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, they weren't wondering, as the Chinese had, if they could find some exotic animals to take home to their king.
Go home and pack your things.
Hey, maybe we should see if there's anyway I could get transferred someplace a little bit closer to home, like uh.
He has commanded me to publish it And stick it in ev'ry home!
Go home to your parents, and explain to them that you have all.
Yeah, we have to go home.
Welcome to my home.
Friends! After having conquered this land in the name of France, you will now farm it and make it your new home for you and your children.
Why don't we go home to Algiers?
I don't feel at home here.
Then we'll go home? I promise.
We'll go home to Algeria.
The French will soon return home!
If they had burned your family home in Normandy, seized your land and destroyed your churches?
When Abdelkader surrendered, I took my wife and son and went home with a broken heart.
How long will that boy stay in our home?
After having conquered this land in the name of France, you will now farm it. And make it your new home!
Welcome home.
I escaped from home.
Suspended on the spot, get sent home, your parents freak out, and that's why I won't let anybody in my crew touch the stuff.
It says so right here, but I took some home and set the table with them, and my mom freaked out and sent me to my room, and her boyfriend even kept laughing!
We were just trying to get home.
Do you want us to do anything for you, back home?
I wonder what people would really make of all this back home?
We can never go home?
No. I'm going home and.
You can each of you make one phone call home but you must not, under any circumstances, tell them where you are and what is happening.
What happens if it's safe for us, if it becomes safe for us to go home, to break cover?
If I were you, I'd stay home tonight. What does that mean?
Home-- where the hell is it?
At least let his soul be able to return home. I order, Captain Eun Si Gyeong, to immediately return to the troop.
You know my aunt keeps calling me and tries to set me up with someone who will make a sweet home with me.
I'm going to go home.

News and current affairs

We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.
When oil companies misbehave in Nigeria or elsewhere, they are protected by the power of their home countries.
Tailoring financial products for diaspora communities could attract resources for investment, while reinforcing migrants' ties - economic and otherwise - to their home countries.
It had an antecedent, that is, a lack of pre-emptive resistance at home and abroad to the threat that built up in Nazi Germany during the 1930's.
In Berlin, as in other large German cities, taxis sport the flags of their drivers' home countries - from Angola to Saudi Arabia.
Fans don not just their nations' flags, but also fantastic costumes evocative of their home countries' colors.
I watched from home on CNN as the first cruise missiles hit Baghdad.
At home, Sarkozy has aimed his message particularly at the young, issuing a patriotic call to the values of work and discipline, a counter-revolutionary revolution.
More important, Meles put Addis Ababa on the map as the home of the African Union, and as a capital where Africa's worst problems could be discussed in a pragmatic manner, unburdened by colonial grudges.
The key to investment strategy is to get domestic entrepreneurs excited about the home economy.
How can you go home again if the sea has been sucked down a vast drain that opened up beneath it, emptying it who knows where, into a void?
At that point, only one conclusion is possible: The plundered Marbles must be reunited in their historical home and exhibited to the world as the ancient artists intended.
They follow you home.
Public transport was halted, trains to and from the city were stopped, shops and business closed, and citizens were told to stay home.
My father was involved with the United States space program, and we had some moon rocks at home, so I thought it was no big deal.
Once it was dark, a screen was set up and Mark showed home videos from space.
Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.
At the time (2008-2009), large international banks had to be rescued by their home countries' governments when they ran into trouble.
National supervisors always tend to minimize problems at home.
But their resistance to recognizing problems at home runs even deeper.
Given national supervisors' predictable tendency not to recognize problems at home, it seemed natural that the cost of cleaning up insolvent banks should also be borne at the national level.
The supervisor of the home country (Italy) has the opposite interest.
In the Muslim world, there is a widespread conspiracy theory that the Israelis were behind those attacks, and that all Jews who worked in the buildings stayed home that day.
Closer to home, ASEAN's recent decision to give Burma a chance to chair the organization in 2014 underscores its neighbors' desire for the country's full participation in Asia's growing prosperity.
At home, he still ranks first in popularity among the country's heads of state, kindling nostalgia like a popular old record - a corollary to people's frustration and anger at the current government of President Lee Myung-bak.
The same is true for Germany, which is home to some of the most efficient pulverized coal combustion units in Europe.
In fashionable African cities, residential home prices remain stratospheric.
A typical Western-style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.

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