SkyfireDict

home   (TTS Sound)

The noun home has 9 senses

• home, place -- (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?")


• dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house -- (housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless")


• home -- (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")


• home plate, home base, home, plate -- ((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")


• base, home -- (the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end)


• home -- (place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball")


• home -- (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")


• family, household, house, home, menage -- (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")


• home, nursing home, rest home -- (an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly")

The verb home has 2 senses

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


• home -- (return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons")

The adj home has 3 senses

• home -- (used of your own ground; "a home game")


• home -- (relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town")


• home, interior, internal, national -- (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")

The adv home has 3 senses

• home -- (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")


• home -- (on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home")


• home -- (to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home")