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home from home

home from home is the alternative form of home away from home.

Meaning of home away from home

Noun

home away from home (plural homes away from home)

  1. (idiomatic) A place in which one is as comfortable as one's actual home.
    • I stayed in a lot of hotels in New York with the Dead and with Jerry's band, but the Navarro, more than any other, became our home away from home.2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN

Questions about home from home

What is home from home the alternative form of?
Home from home is the alternative form of home away from home.

Words near home from home in the dictionary

  1. home for the aged
  2. home forties
  3. home forty
  4. home free
  5. home fries
  6. home from home
  7. home front
  8. home fronts
  9. home fry
  10. home game
  11. home games

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