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From Middle English home, hom, hoom, ham, from Old English hām (“village, hamlet, manor, estate, home, dwelling, house, region, country”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”). Cognate with Scots hame (“home, homeland”), North Frisian hamm (“home, homeland”), Dutch heem (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Icelandic heimur (“heimur”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian káimas (“village”), šeimà (“family”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (“seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite kittari (“it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan ... (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit ... (śáye, “he lies”).

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  1. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
  2. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
    • 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
      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.
    • 1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home,
      I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
  3. The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
    I left home last year.
    • 2004, Jean Harrison, Home,
      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.
  4. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
  5. 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.
    • 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,
      ... Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, ...
    • 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.,
      Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
  6. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
    • 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes, xii, 5,
      ... because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
  7. (gaming, in various 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.
  8. (baseball) Home plate.
  9. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
  10. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's home page

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Terms derived from the noun "home"

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house or structure in which someone lives
someone’s native land
childhood or parental home
place of the affections
habitat
place of refuge or rest
goal (sports)
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[edit] Verb

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

  1. (usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
    • The missile was able to home in on the target.
    • Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug. — Ewen Callaway, New Scientist, July 2008

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to home ("in on")

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home (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
  2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

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Terms derived from the adjective "home"

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home (not comparable)

  1. To one’s home or country
    go home, come home, carry home.
  2. Close; closely.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
      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.
    • 1718, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ẛeveral Occasions,
      How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, ...
  3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
    to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home
    • c.1603, William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1,
      ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: ...
  4. In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
    Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
  5. (UK, soccer) Into the goal.
    • 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
      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.

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  • Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.

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Terms derived from the adverb "home"

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at home (adverb)
homewards (adverb)

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Terms related to "home"

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From Old Provençal omne, from Latin homō (“human being”).

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home m. (plural homes or hòmens)

  1. man
  2. husband

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husband

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woman
wife

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spouse

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From homo.

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home

  1. humanly

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(index ho)

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  • Hyphenation: ho‧me
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • IPA: [ˈho̞me̞ˣ], X-SAMPA: ["home(?)]

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home

  1. mildew, mould

[edit] Declension

Declension of home (type hame)
singular plural
nominative home homeet
genitive homeen homeiden
homeitten
partitive hometta homeita
accusative home
homeen		 homeet
inessive homeessa homeissa
elative homeesta homeista
illative homeeseen homeisiin
homeihin
adessive homeella homeilla
ablative homeelta homeilta
allative homeelle homeille
essive homeena homeina
translative homeeksi homeiksi
instructive – homein
abessive homeetta homeitta
comitative – homeineen

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From Latin homō.

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home m. (plural homes)

  1. human
  2. man (adult male)
  3. male human
  4. spouse

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home

  1. man! Expresses surprise.

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English home

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home f. inv.

  1. home (initial position of various computing objects)

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home m.

  1. man
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