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homes away from home

homes away from home is the plural 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 homes away from home

What is homes away from home the plural of?
Homes away from home is the plural of home away from home.

Words near homes away from home in the dictionary

  1. Homerton
  2. homerun
  3. homeruns
  4. Homerville
  5. homes
  6. homes away from home
  7. homes in
  8. homesat
  9. homescape
  10. homescapes
  11. homescar

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