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Singular home

Plural homes

home (plural homes)

1. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.

   The disciples went away again to their own home. —John xx. 10.

   Home is the sacred refuge of our life. — John Dryden.

   Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There’s no place like home. — John Howard Payne.

2. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.

   Our old home England. — Nathaniel Hawthorne.

3. The place where a person was raised. Childhood or parental home. Home of one’s parents or guardian.

   I left home last year.

4. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

   He entered in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. — George Gordon Byron.

5. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.

   the home of the pine.

   Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. — Alfred Tennyson.

   Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. — Matthew Prior.

6. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.

   Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. —Eccl. xii.

7. (gaming) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
8. (baseball) Home plate.
9. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
10. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's home page

Synonyms

• (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
• ((baseball) home plate): home base

Derived terms

• at home
• bring home
• broken home
• drive home
• funeral home
• holiday home
• homebuilder
• home computer
• Home Depot

• home-grown
• home help
• home is where you hang your hat
• home is where the heart is
• home-made
• home movie
• homeowner
• home plate
• home run

• Home Secretary
• homesickness
• home stretch
• home teach
• home team
• motor home
• nursing home
• parental home

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A home is a place of residence or refuge and comfort. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either living in the wild or in a domesticated environment. As an alternative to the definition of "home" as a physical locale, home may be perceived to have no physical definition--instead, home may relate instead to a mental or emotional state of refuge or comfort.

There are certain cultures in which members lack permanent homes, such as with nomadic people.

A home is a place of residence or refuge and comfort. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property.

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• Home is where the heart is.
  • Ancient saying, reported at least as early as 1847, in Joseph C. Neal, "Singleton Snippe. Who Married for a Living", Graham's Magazine (1847), p. 166: "Home is where the heart is; and Snippe's heart was a traveler—a locomotive heart, perambulating; and it had no tendencies toward circumscription and confine".

• A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.
  • Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute, p. 162. The exact translation of the Latin portion is: "and where shall a man be safe if it be not in his own house?", quoted from Pandects, lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando.

• Home is home, though it be never so homely.
  • English proverb, reported in John Clarke, Paræmiologia (1639), p. 101.

• 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there 's no place like home; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which sought through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere.
  • John Howard Payne, Home, Sweet Home (1822), from the opera of "Clari, the Maid of Milan"

• Sitting with my gin or whisky afterwards I would often manage to get into conversation with some lonely man or other – usually an exile like myself – and the talk would be about the world, air-routes and shipping-lines, drinking-places thousands of miles away. Then I felt happy, felt I had come home, because home to people like me is not a place but all places, all places except the one we happen to be in at the moment.
  • Anthony Burgess, The Right to an Answer (1960).

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