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Home Depot

Home Depot proper noun: a chain of home improvement warehouse stores which offer large quantities of raw materials and tools.

Proper noun

Home Depot

  1. A chain of home improvement warehouse stores which offer large quantities of raw materials and tools.
    • My aunt Gracie Juanita could build Tara if you gave her a year and a key to the Home Depot.1997, Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin', page 33

Noun

Home Depot (plural Home Depots)

  1. (broadly) A place where a shopper can find everything related to a particular field.
    • She told me her name was Zola, took hold of my elbow, and guided me into the store, which turned out to be a veritable Home Depot for New Agers.1995, Jane Heller, Crystal Clear, page 85
    • The room itself was no larger than an ordinary living room, but it appeared to be a Home Depot of modern weaponry.2003, Loren D. Estleman, Something Borrowed, Something Black, page 89

Examples of Home Depot in a sentence

  • The media, which bombard us with TV shows, movies, catalogs, ads, and magazines, serve as a kind of Home Depot of personas to draw from and put on.2004, Susan Douglas, Meredith W. Michaels, The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and how it Has Undermined Women, page 19:
  • As such, this building is literally like a Home Depot of services!2004, Christopher Eldridge, Conceptual Communal Home Design, page 113:
  • This is the Home Depot of sex toys sites: It has all the basics, an enormous range of models and styles, and tips on building your own.2006, Violet Blue, The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Sex Toys, page 99:
  • It's almost like a Home Depot model for a church.2006, Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, page 113:

Forms of Home Depot

pluralHome Depots

Origin of Home Depot

The common noun follows from the proper noun.

Questions about Home Depot

What does Home Depot mean?
Home Depot means a chain of home improvement warehouse stores which offer large quantities of raw materials and tools.
How do you use Home Depot in a sentence?
The media, which bombard us with TV shows, movies, catalogs, ads, and magazines, serve as a kind of Home Depot of personas to draw from and put on.
What part of speech is Home Depot?
Home Depot can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Home Depot in the dictionary

  1. home defence
  2. home defences
  3. home deliveries
  4. home delivery
  5. Home Department
  6. Home Depot
  7. Home Depots
  8. home directories
  9. home directory
  10. home discipline
  11. home duty

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