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Etymology[edit]
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”).
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz. Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /(h)əʊm/
- (US) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /hoʊm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊm
- Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
Noun[edit]
home (plural homes)
- (heading) A dwelling.
- 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.
- c. 1526, William Tyndale, Bible (Tyndale): John, xx, 10:
- And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home.
- 1808, John Dryden, Walter Scott (editor), The Works of John Dryden:
- Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
- 1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!:
- Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619, page 16:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- c. 1526, William Tyndale, Bible (Tyndale): John, xx, 10:
- The place where a person was raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- 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.
- 2004, Jean Harrison, Home:
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- 1837, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan:
- He enter'd in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home; […]
- 1837, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan:
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- a home for outcasts
- a home for the blind
- a veterans' home
- (by extension) 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: […]
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes, xii, 5:
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 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.
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:
- 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.
- 2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:
- Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
- (heading) A focus point.
- (board 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.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
Synonyms[edit]
- (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
- ((baseball) home plate): home base
Derived terms[edit]
- at home
- at-homeness
- bring home
- broken home
- direct-to-home
- drive home
- far-from-home
- funeral home
- ghost home
- holiday home
- homebuilder
- home computer
- Home Depot
- home directory
- home-grown
- home help
- home is where the heart is
- home is where you hang your hat
- home-made
- home movie
- homeness
- homeowner
- homeownership
- home plate
- home run
- home school
- Home Secretary
- homesewn
- homesickness
- home stretch
- home teach
- home team
- hometown
- homish
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
- motor home
- Mountain Home
- nursing home
- parental home
- smart home
- workhome
- you can't go home again
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)
- (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
Adjective[edit]
home (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
- Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Derived terms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
home (not comparable)
- to home
- to one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- go home, come home, carry home
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- to one's place of birth
- 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: […]
- 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda
- Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
- (Internet) to the home page
- Click here to go home.
- to one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- 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.
- close; closely; to the center; deep
- 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, ...
- 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
- (Britain, 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.
- 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- Sails sheeted home.
Usage notes[edit]
- 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (to home): homeward
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
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Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Catalan home, hom, from Old Occitan omne, ome, from Latin homō, hominem (“human being”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes or hòmens)
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
- el cònjuge
Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Numeral[edit]
ho̊me
- (Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From homo.
Adverb[edit]
home
Finnish[edit]
(index ho)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *homeh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
home
Declension[edit]
Inflection of home (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | home | homeet | |
genitive | homeen | homeiden homeitten | |
partitive | hometta | homeita | |
illative | homeeseen | homeisiin homeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | home | homeet | |
accusative | nom. | home | homeet |
gen. | homeen | ||
genitive | homeen | homeiden homeitten | |
partitive | hometta | homeita | |
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 |
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
Usage notes[edit]
- Home is a false friend, and does not mean home. Galician equivalents are shown in the "Translations" section of the English entry home.
Interjection[edit]
home
- man! Expresses surprise.
See also[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
home f (invariable)
Leonese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
References[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English hām, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- home, residence, dwelling
- house, housing
- accomodation, rest
- (figuratively) seat, headquarters, centre
- (rare) village, town
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “hōm (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
home
- Alternative form of hem
References[edit]
- “hem, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.
Mirandese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
Antonyms[edit]
Novial[edit]
Noun[edit]
home c (plural homes)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- see hom for alternative nominative singular forms
Etymology[edit]
From Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō, with the loss of the -in- syllable. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
(oblique case)
- man (male adult human being)
- man (mankind; Homo sapiens)
- circa 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 476:
- O HOM de sancte vie, entent que signefie
- O MAN of sacred life, listen to what this means
- vassal; manservant
Coordinate terms[edit]
- fame (“woman”)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
- home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 40, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)
Old Occitan[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
- Alternative form of ome
Old Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m
- Alternative form of ome
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
home m (plural homes)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of homem
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