home sweet home

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hōm swēt hōm, IPA^(key): /həʊm swiːt həʊm/
• (US) enPR: hōm swēt hōm, IPA^(key): /hoʊm swiːt hoʊm/

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Phrase

home sweet home

1. (idiomatic) One's home, especially a nice, comfortable home.
2. (idiomatic) Expressing contentment or relief at residing in or returning to one's own home.
   • 1892, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, chapter 1, in The Diary of a Nobody:

     After my work in the City, I like to be at home. What 's the good of a home, if you are never in it? "Home, Sweet Home," that's my motto.

Related terms

• Sweet Home (place name)

Translations

Nice, comfortable home

• Arabic: الْبَيْت السَّعِيد m (al-bayt as-saʕīd)
• Catalan: llar, dolça llar
• Esperanto: hejmon, dolĉan hejmon
• Estonian: kodu armas kodu
• Finnish: oma koti kullan kallis
• French: on est bien à la maison, qu’on est bien chez soi
• German: trautes Heim n
• Greek: σπίτι μου, σπιτάκι μου (spíti mou, spitáki mou)
• Hungarian: otthon, édes otthon
• Indonesian: rumahku surgaku
• Italian: casa, dolce casa
• Japanese: ホーム・スイート・ホーム (hōmu suīto hōmu)
• Malay: rumahku syurgaku
• Navajo: doo lá dóʼ shighan da
• Portuguese: lar, doce lar
• Russian: дом, милый дом (dom, milyj dom)
• Slovene: ljubo doma, kdor ga ima
• Spanish: hogar, dulce hogar
• Swedish: hem, ljuva hem

Further reading

• “home sweet home”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.