home

Noun (1)

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
   • Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.1808, John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden

   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
   • 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. 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
   • You only live life one time / Thank God I'll never live alone / My heart will always have a home / Living with you1977, Keith Barrow, “Precious”, in Keith Barrow
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
   • a home for the blind
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
7. (broadly) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
   • The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".2007 January 10, Leslie Feinberg, “1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism”, in Workers World
8. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
   • Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
   • Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 93
9. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
   • the home of the pine
   • […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets
10. (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
    • The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
11. Home plate.

    Synonyms:

    home base

12. The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
13. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
14. (informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.

Verb

home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)

1. (intransitive) To return to its owner.
   • The dog homed.

Adjective

home (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
   • home manufactures
2. (archaic, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.
   • a home truth
3. (obsolete) Personal, intimate.
   • 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 […].1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 91
4. Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
   • the home end, home advantage, home supporters

   Antonyms:

   away, road, visitor

Adverb

home (not comparable)

1. To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
   • go home
   • come home
2. To one's place of birth.
3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
   • She drove the nail home
   • ram a cartridge home
4. (Internet) To the home page.
   • Click here to go home.
5. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
   • I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
6. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
   • I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral
   • How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
7. (UK) into the goal
   • Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February
8. into the right, proper or stowed position
   • sails sheeted home

Noun (2) capitalized: Home

Home (uncountable)

1. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.

Proper noun capitalized: Home

IPA/ˈhjuːm/

Home

1. A habitational surname from Old English.
2. An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Marshall County, Kansas.
3. An unincorporated community in Rayne Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
4. A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
5. An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia.