HOME
\hˈə͡ʊm], \hˈəʊm], \h_ˈəʊ_m]\
Definitions of HOME
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
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place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"
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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"
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to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
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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?"
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return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
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used of your own ground; "a home game"
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relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town"
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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".
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on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
By Princeton University
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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"
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the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
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place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"
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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"
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to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
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having controlling authority; where important decisions are made; "home base"; "home ofice"
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(sport) used of your own ground; "a home game"
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relating to or taking place in a home or house or household; "home cooking"; "home furnishings"; "home care for the elderly"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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See Homelyn.
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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.
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One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
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The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
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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.
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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.
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The home base; he started for home.
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Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
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Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
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To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
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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.
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In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal
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The plate at which the batter stands.
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The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.
By Oddity Software
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See Homelyn.
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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.
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One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
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The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
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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.
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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.
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The home base; he started for home.
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Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
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Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
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To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
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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.
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In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal
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The plate at which the batter stands.
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The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.
By Noah Webster.
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One's abode or residence; dwelling place of a man and his family; fatherland; locality where a plant or animal abounds; a benevolent or charitable institution.
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Pertaining to one's abode or country; domestic; to the point designed; as, a home thrust; near; effective.
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To or at home; to the uttermost; closely.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One's house or country: place of constant residence: the seat, as of war.
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Pertaining to one's dwelling or country: domestic: close: severe.
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To one's habitation or country: close: closely: to the point.
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HOMELESS.
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HOMELESSNESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to home or country.
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Going home; effective.
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A place of abode; family residence; resting place; habitat.
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In games, a goal.
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To or at home.
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To the place or point intended.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Connected with one's dwelling or country; domestic; close; severe; pointed.
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To one's habitation, or country; pointedly; closely. At home, at one's house; in one's country. To be at home, to be conversant with, or familiar.
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One's dwelling with one's family; where one stays; one's own country; where one is at rest; the grave; an institution to provide something like home comfort.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A dwelling-house; an abode; one's own country.
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Domestic; produced at home or in one's own country; close or severe, as a home thrust.
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To one's own habitation or country; close to our own breast or affairs; to the utmost; fully; closely; home is used of anything close in its place-applied to the sheets of the sails, to the shot in a gun, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Greek] The house in which one resides; residence;—the place or country in which one dwells, and also all that pertains to a dwelling-place;—the present state of existence;—the grave; the future state.
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His own house, the private dwelling; his own country; the place of constant residence; united to a substantive, it signifies domestick.
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To one’s own habitation; to one’s own country; close to one’s own breast or affairs; to the point designed; united to a substantive, it implies force and efficacy.
By Thomas Sheridan
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