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home

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/həʊm/]

Senses

1. home (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A dwelling.: One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.

Example: And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.

2. home (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A dwelling.: The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; a childhood or parental home; the home of one’s parents or guardian.

Example: Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.

3. home (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A dwelling.: The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

Example: He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…]

4. home (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To return to its owner.

Example: The dog homed.

5. home (adj) — sense 5

Definition: Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.

Example: home manufactures

6. home (adj) — sense 6

Definition: That strikes home; direct, pointed.

Example: a home truth

7. home (adj) — sense 7

Definition: Personal, intimate.

Example: I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].

8. home (adv) — sense 8

Definition: To one's home.: To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.

Example: go home

9. home (adv) — sense 9

Definition: To one's home.: To one's place of birth.

10. home (adv) — sense 10

Definition: To one's home.: To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.

Example: She drove the nail home

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