HOMEMADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homemade mean? 

• HOMEMADE (adjective)
  The adjective HOMEMADE has 1 sense:

1. made or produced in the home or by yourself

  Familiarity information: HOMEMADE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMEMADE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made or produced in the home or by yourself

Context example:

homemade bread

Similar:

do-it-yourself (done by yourself)

home-baked (baked at home)

home-brewed (brewed at home)

home-cured (cured at home)

homespun (made of cloth spun or woven in the home)

Antonym:

factory-made (produced in quantity at a factory)

 Context examples 

Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) Prepare a homemade meal.

(FIQR - Prepare a Homemade Meal, NCI Thesaurus)

His reverence is our own homemade article.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If you are really lucky, your mother or a friend might prepare homemade chicken soup for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The parlor struck her as looking uncommonly shabby, but without stopping to sigh for what she had not, she skillfully made the best of what she had, arranging chairs over the worn places in the carpet, covering stains on the walls with homemade statuary, which gave an artistic air to the room, as did the lovely vases of flowers Jo scattered about.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)