home
1. where you live at a particular time (Freq. 55)
- deliver the package to my home
- he doesn't have a home to go to
- your place or mine?
• Syn:
place
• Derivationally related forms:
place (for: place), homely
• Hypernyms:
residence, abode
• Hyponyms:
home away from home, home from home
2. housing that someone is living in (Freq. 48)
- he built a modest dwelling near the pond
- they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
• Syn:
dwelling, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
• Derivationally related forms:
domiciliary (for: domicile), dwell (for: dwelling)
• Hypernyms:
housing, lodging, living accommodations
• Hyponyms:
cliff dwelling, condominium, condo, fixer-upper, hearth,
fireside, hermitage, homestead, house, lake dwelling, pile dwelling,
lodge, indian lodge, messuage, semi-detached house, vacation home, yurt
• Part Meronyms:
bathroom, bath, bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation,
chamber, bedchamber, den, dinette, dining room, dining-room,
dressing room, family room, kitchen, living room, living-room, sitting room,
front room, parlor, parlour
3. the country or state or city where you live (Freq. 10)
- Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home
- his home is New Jersey
• Hypernyms:
location
4. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands;
it must be touched by a base runner in order to score (Freq. 3)
- he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
• Syn:
home plate, home base, plate
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
base, bag
5. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
base
• Hypernyms:
location
6. place where something began and flourished (Freq. 1)
- the United States is the home of basketball
• Hypernyms:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
7. an environment offering affection and security
- home is where the heart is
- he grew up in a good Christian home
- there's no place like home
• Derivationally related forms:
homy, homey
• Hypernyms:
environment
8. a social unit living together
- he moved his family to Virginia
- It was a good Christian household
- I waited until the whole house was asleep
- the teacher asked how many people made up his home
• Syn:
family, household, house, menage
• Derivationally related forms:
householder (for: household)
• Hypernyms:
unit, social unit
• Hyponyms:
broken home, nuclear family, conjugal family, extended family, foster family,
foster home, menage a trois
9. an institution where people are cared for
- a home for the elderly
• Syn:
nursing home, rest home
• Hypernyms:
institution
1. provide with, or send to, a home
• Hypernyms:
house, put up, domiciliate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. return home accurately from a long distance
- homing pigeons
• Hypernyms:
return
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
1. used of your own ground (Freq. 7)
- a home game
• Ant:
away
• Topics:
sport, athletics
2. relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are (Freq. 3)
- my home town
3. inside the country
- the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
- the nation's internal politics
• Syn:
interior, internal, national
• Similar to:
domestic
1. at or to or in the direction of one's home or family (Freq. 59)
- He stays home on weekends
- after the game the children brought friends home for supper
- I'll be home tomorrow
- came riding home in style
- I hope you will come home for Christmas
- I'll take her home
- don't forget to write home
2. on or to the point aimed at (Freq. 2)
- the arrow struck home
3. to the fullest extent;
to the heart
- drove the nail home
- drove his point home
- his comments hit home
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