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"
  • synonyms: place
• Housing that someone is living in.
  • usage: "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
  • synonyms: dwelling, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
• 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"
  • synonyms: home plate, home base, plate
• The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.
  • synonyms: base
• 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"
  • synonyms: family, household, house, menage
• An institution where people are cared for.
  • usage: "a home for the elderly"
  • synonyms: nursing home, rest home

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"
  • synonyms: interior, internal, national

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"