Talk:home
Clean-up[edit]
This article needs a lot of work, mostly formatting. — Hippietrail 03:16, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I've tried my best and this stuff (below) was removed because I'm not sure that it belongs in the main article:--Williamsayers79 21:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
At home.
- (a) At one’s own house, or lodgings.
- (b) In one’s own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home.
- (c) Prepared to receive callers.
- (d) At one’s parents’ or guardian’s home or lodgings.
{Home department}, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.]
{To be at home on any subject}, to be conversant, familiar or comfortable with it.
{To feel at home}, to be at one’s ease.
{To make oneself at home}, to conduct one’s self with as much freedom as if at home.
Leave home.
- (a) To go outside the home.
- (b) To move out of one’s parents’ home or the home of one’s legal guardian. To move out for autonomy.
{To prepare to leave home}, to seek autonomy.
Translations[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- home base: (baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run.
- home farm: {grounds}, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.
- home lot: (US) an enclosed plot on which the owner’s home stands.
- home page
- home rule: rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament.
- home ruler: one who favours or advocates home rule.
- home run: (baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base.
- home stretch: (sports) that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.
- home thrust: a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.
Derived terms[edit]
- to bring home. See under bring.
- to come home.
- (a) To touch or affect personally. See under come.
- (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; — said of an anchor.
- to haul home the sheets of a sail: (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole. —Totten.
Proverbs[edit]
- There's no place like home
- Russian: Template:RUchar
- Home is home though never so homely/poor
- French: À chaque oiseau, son nid paraît beau.
- Italian: Casa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia tu mi pari una badia.
- Piedmontese: Ógni ocel sò nì l’è bel.
- Spanish: Casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces abadía.
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As a shortened form of homeboy, I don't think that exists. The cite given is for homes, where it is already correctly described as an alternative to the more common holmes (though I think it was more commonly pronounced like homes up until the 80s or so), which by the way is definitely not related to Sherlock Holmes. GaylordFancypants (talk) — This unsigned comment was added by GaylordFancypants (talk • contribs) at 03:39, 30 July 2018 (UTC).
- RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
In the home of one's parents[edit]
at home reads In the home of one's parents. Can the adverb home also be used for such a meaning? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
Home of one's ancestors, even if one has never been there?[edit]
''Hobson-Jobson'' has this:
- HOME. In Anglo-Indian and colonial speech this means England.
- 1837.—"Home always means England; nobody calls India home—not even those who have been here thirty years or more, and are never likely to return to Europe."—Letters from Madras, 92.
- 1865.—"You may perhaps remember how often in times past we debated, with a seriousness becoming the gravity of the subject, what article of food we should each of us respectively indulge in, on our first arrival at home."—Waring, Tropical Resident, 154.
- So also in the West Indies: 1830.—"... 'Oh, your cousin Mary, I forgot—fine girl, Tom—may do for you at home yonder' (all Creoles speak of England as home, although they may never have seen it)."—Tom Cringle, ed. 1863, 238.