home
/hoʊm/noun, verb, adjective, adverb1 syllable
Home means: housing that someone is living in.
Synonyms for home23
noun, as in housing that someone is living in
noun, as in (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
noun, as in an institution where people are cared for
noun, as in where you live at a particular time
noun, as in the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Opposites of home
What does home mean?17
noun
housing that someone is living in“he built a modest dwelling near the pond”
a social unit living together“he moved his family to Virginia”
(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”
an institution where people are cared for“a home for the elderly”
where you live at a particular time“deliver the package to my home”
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
the country or state or city where you live“Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home”
place where something began and flourished“the United States is the home of basketball”
an environment offering affection and security“home is where the heart is”
adjective
inside the country“the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”
used of your own ground“a home game”
relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are“my home town”
adverb
at or to or in the direction of one's home or family“He stays home on weekends”
on or to the point aimed at“the arrow struck home”
to the fullest extent; to the heart“drove the nail home”
verb
provide with, or send to, a home
return home accurately from a long distance“homing pigeons”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with home?10
Home in a sentence
- Before you leave home, make sure your pets have enough food.CK
- As soon as he got home, he began to play a computer game.CK
- On arriving home, he laid himself on the floor.auxitt
- If you wash it at home, the color will run.auxitt
- Which would you rather do, go to the cinema or stay at home?sundown
- Seeing that it is raining, you had better stay home.Sprachprofi
- Since it was raining, we stayed at home.CK
- The doctor told him to rest at home, which is advice he followed.Lumi
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of home
as a noun
- plural
- homes
as a verb
- past tense
- homed
- present participle
- homing
- third-person singular
- homes
- past participle
- homed