'ome

Noun

home (plural homes)

1. 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.
   • And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John xx:[10], folio clj, recto

   Synonyms:

   tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence

2. 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.
   • The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.2004, Jean Harrison, Home
3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
   • He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…]1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III
4. A house that has been made homelike, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
   • It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
5. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
   • a home for outcasts
6. (broadly) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
   • […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5

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