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from home

from home prepositional phrase: away from home, not at home; away, out.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, dated, idiomatic) Away from home, not at home; away, out.
    • men are merriest when they are from homec. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2
    • the old Gentleman being from Home, or out of the way when my Messenger came, my Letter came directly to my Sons Hand1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, page 411

Examples of from home in a sentence

  • I cannot bear the thoughts of a Christmas spent from home1847, Anne Brontë, chapter 8, in Agnes Grey, volume 3, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 133:
  • His family difficulties, his long stay from home.1969, John Fowles, chapter 21, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, London: Panther, published 1971, page 156:

Origin of from home

From Middle English fram home, from hame, from hom.

Words formed from from home

Questions about from home

What does from home mean?
From home means away from home, not at home; away, out.
How do you use from home in a sentence?
I cannot bear the thoughts of a Christmas spent from home
What part of speech is from home?
From home is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from home in the dictionary

  1. from hell
  2. from here on in
  3. from here on out
  4. from here to Sunday
  5. from hereon out
  6. from home
  7. from hunger
  8. from jump street
  9. from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
  10. from me born
  11. from memory

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