What is the meaning of home?

noun

  • Where you live at a particular time.
    • usage: "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine"
  • Housing that someone is living in.
    • usage: "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
  • The country or state or city where you live.
    • usage: "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey"
  • Baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score. (
    • usage: "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
  • The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.
  • Place where something began and flourished.
    • usage: "the United States is the home of basketball"
  • An environment offering affection and security.
    • usage: "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home"
  • A social unit living together.
    • usage: "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"
  • An institution where people are cared for.
    • usage: "a home for the elderly"

verb

  • Provide with, or send to, a home.
  • Return home accurately from a long distance.
    • usage: "homing pigeons"

adjective

  • Used of your own ground.
    • usage: "a home game"
  • Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are.
    • usage: "my home town"
  • Inside the country.
    • usage: "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"

adverb

  • At or to or in the direction of one's home or family.
    • usage: "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"
  • On or to the point aimed at.
    • usage: "the arrow struck home"
  • To the fullest extent; to the heart.
    • usage: "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
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