home

• (r) at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
  • 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
• (a) used of your own ground
  • a home game
• (a) relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
  • my home town
• (r) on or to the point aimed at
  • the arrow struck home
• (s) inside the country
  • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
  • the nation's internal politics
  interior, internal, national,
• (r) to the fullest extent; to the heart
  • drove the nail home
  • drove his point home
  • his comments hit home

Nouns

• (n) where you live at a particular time
  • deliver the package to my home
  • he doesn't have a home to go to
  • your place or mine?
  place,
• (n) housing that someone is living in
  • he built a modest dwelling near the pond
  • they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
  dwelling, dwelling house, abode, domicile, habitation,
• (n) the country or state or city where you live
  • Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home
  • his home is New Jersey
• (n) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
  • he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
  home base, home plate, plate,
• (n) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end base,
• (n) place where something began and flourished
  • the United States is the home of basketball
• (n) 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
• (n) 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
  family, household, menage, house,
• (n) an institution where people are cared for
  • a home for the elderly
  nursing home, rest home,

Verbs

• (v) provide with, or send to, a home
• (v) return home accurately from a long distance
  • homing pigeons

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Words of close approximity