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/həʊm/ · noun

Meaning

A dwelling..

Definitions by Sense

1. A dwelling.
2. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
3. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
4. A focus point.
5. (computing) Clipping of home directory.
6. (of animals, intransitive) To return to its owner.
7. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
8. (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.

Example Sentences

I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.

Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.

Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?

So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

the home of the pine

[…] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.

Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.

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• homes
• hyem
• homing
• homed

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