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 Dictionary entry overview: What does home mean? 

• HOME (noun)
  The noun HOME has 9 senses:

1. where you live at a particular time

2. housing that someone is living in

3. the country or state or city where you live

4. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

5. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

6. place where something began and flourished

7. an environment offering affection and security

8. a social unit living together

9. an institution where people are cared for

  Familiarity information: HOME used as a noun is familiar.

• HOME (adjective)
  The adjective HOME has 3 senses:

1. used of your own ground

2. relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are

3. inside the country

  Familiarity information: HOME used as an adjective is uncommon.

• HOME (verb)
  The verb HOME has 2 senses:

1. provide with, or send to, a home

2. return home accurately from a long distance

  Familiarity information: HOME used as a verb is rare.

• HOME (adverb)
  The adverb HOME has 3 senses:

1. at or to or in the direction of one's home or family

2. on or to the point aimed at

3. to the fullest extent; to the heart

  Familiarity information: HOME used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Where you live at a particular time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

home; place

Context example:

your place or mine?

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

abode; residence (any address at which you dwell more than temporarily)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):

home away from home; home from home (a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home)

Derivation:

home (return home accurately from a long distance)

homely (having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Housing that someone is living in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home

Context example:

they raise money to provide homes for the homeless

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)

Meronyms (parts of "home"):

bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)

front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)

family room (a recreation room in a private house)

dressing room (a room in which you can change clothes)

dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)

dinette (a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining)

den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)

bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)

kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):

condo; condominium (one of the dwelling units in a condominium)

yurt (a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing)

vacation home (a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation)

semi-detached house (a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side)

messuage ((law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household)

indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)

lake dwelling; pile dwelling (dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages)

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

homestead (dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land)

hermitage (the abode of a hermit)

fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)

fixer-upper (a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price))

cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The country or state or city where you live

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

his home is New Jersey

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

home; home base; home plate; plate

Context example:

he ruled that the runner failed to touch home

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

bag; base (a place that the runner must touch before scoring)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

base; home

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Place where something began and flourished

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the United States is the home of basketball

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

Sense 7

Meaning:

An environment offering affection and security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

there's no place like home

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

homey; homy (having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A social unit living together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family; home; house; household; menage

Context example:

the family refused to accept his will

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):

broken home (a family in which the parents have separated or divorced)

conjugal family; nuclear family (a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner)

extended family (a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives)

foster family (the family of a fosterling)

foster home (a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency))

menage a trois (household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

Sense 9

Meaning:

An institution where people are cared for

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

home; nursing home; rest home

Context example:

a home for the elderly

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

institution (an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

• HOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of your own ground

Context example:

a home game

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Antonym:

away (used of an opponent's ground)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

my home town

Pertainym:

home (the country or state or city where you live)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Inside the country

Synonyms:

home; interior; internal; national

Context example:

the nation's internal politics

Similar:

domestic (of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation)

• HOME (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with, or send to, a home

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "home" is one way to...):

domiciliate; house; put up (provide housing for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

home (housing that someone is living in)

home (an institution where people are cared for)

home (a social unit living together)

home (an environment offering affection and security)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Return home accurately from a long distance

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

homing pigeons

Hypernyms (to "home" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

home (where you live at a particular time)

• HOME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or to or in the direction of one's home or family

Context example:

don't forget to write home

Sense 2

Meaning:

On or to the point aimed at

Context example:

the arrow struck home

Sense 3

Meaning:

To the fullest extent; to the heart

Context example:

his comments hit home

 Context examples 

He will be home, sir, at a quarter to one.

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

She begged him to remain at home, as she could hear the rain pattering against the window, but in spite of her entreaties he pulled on his large mackintosh and left the house.

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

“And now you must on no account lose another instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told me. You must get home instantly and act.”

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

Saturn will leave during those months (March 21 to July 1), but Jupiter, giver of gifts and luck, will remain in your fourth house of home until December 19, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Nor did he mind, in the course of learning to ride the wheel home, the fact that he ruined his suit of clothes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Our boats hunted across the two or three miles of water between them and the point where the Macedonia’s had been dropped, and then headed for home.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Laurie was sick and lonely, and feeling how rich she was in home and happiness, she gladly tried to share it with him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"He might have lived to a ripe old age if he'd stayed at home," Henry agreed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)