home Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun where you live at a particular time
    place.
    • deliver the package to my home
    • he doesn't have a home to go to
    • your place or mine?
  2. noun housing that someone is living in
    abode; dwelling house; dwelling; domicile; habitation.
    • he built a modest dwelling near the pond
    • they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
  3. noun 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
  4. noun (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
    home base; home plate; plate.
    • he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
  5. noun the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
    base.
  6. noun place where something began and flourished
    • the United States is the home of basketball
  7. noun 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
  8. noun a social unit living together
    house; household; menage; family.
    • 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
  9. noun an institution where people are cared for
    nursing home; rest home.
    • a home for the elderly
  10. verb provide with, or send to, a home
  11. verb return home accurately from a long distance
    • homing pigeons
  12. adjective used of your own ground
    • a home game
  13. adjective relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
    • my home town
  14. adjective satellite inside the country
    interior; national; internal.
    • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
    • the nation's internal politics
  15. adverb 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
  16. adverb on or to the point aimed at
    • the arrow struck home
  17. adverb to the fullest extent; to the heart
    • drove the nail home
    • drove his point home
    • his comments hit home

WordNet

Home noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) See Homelyn.
Home noun
Etymology
OE. hom, ham, AS. ham; akin to OS. hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. këmas, and perh. to Gr. village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.kshma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. ,
Definitions
  1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., 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. Dryden.
    Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home. 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]." Hawthorne.
  3. 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. Byron.
  4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
    Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson.
    Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. Prior.
  5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., 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. 5.
  6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home. Syn. -- Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.
Home adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
  2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Home adverb
Definitions
  1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
  2. Close; closely.
    How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. South.
    They come home to men's business and bosoms. Bacon.
  3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
    Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. Shak.
    ✍ Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc. Totten.

Webster 1913