Home
noun
The place where one lives.
I will be staying at home all day tomorrow
Often appears as...
- make yourself at home
- there's no place like home
adverb
To the place where one lives.
After the movie, we went straight home
Often appears as...
- go home
- come home
noun
The place where or environment in which a person or thing is most likely to thrive.
The beach is the turtle's home
Often appears as...
- feels like home
- a home away from home
verb
Move or be aimed towards with great accuracy.
The missiles can home in on aircraft from 100 miles away
Often appears as...
- home in on a target
- home in on a signal
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A place where people with specified needs can live and receive certain types of treatments.
My grandmother lives in a retirement home
Often appears as...
- nursing home
- retirement home
adjective
Relating to the place where one lives.
We have some home improvements planned for the summer
Often appears as...
- home cooked meal
- home improvements
Usage tips
Approving
noun
The place where one lives.
I will be staying at home all day tomorrow
Often appears as...
- make yourself at home
- there's no place like home
adverb
To the place where one lives.
After the movie, we went straight home
Often appears as...
- go home
- come home
noun
The place where or environment in which a person or thing is most likely to thrive.
The beach is the turtle's home
Often appears as...
- feels like home
- a home away from home
verb
Move or be aimed towards with great accuracy.
The missiles can home in on aircraft from 100 miles away
Often appears as...
- home in on a target
- home in on a signal
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A place where people with specified needs can live and receive certain types of treatments.
My grandmother lives in a retirement home
Often appears as...
- nursing home
- retirement home
adjective
Relating to the place where one lives.
We have some home improvements planned for the summer
Often appears as...
- home cooked meal
- home improvements
Usage tips
Approving
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Connection
The word often implies a personal, warm, or secure atmosphere associated with one's own living space.
After traveling, I miss the comfort of home.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Saying
The phrase 'there's no place like home' expresses a deep sentimental value for one's own living space.
Despite the beautiful vacation, there's no place like home.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Connection
The word often implies a personal, warm, or secure atmosphere associated with one's own living space.
After traveling, I miss the comfort of home.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Saying
The phrase 'there's no place like home' expresses a deep sentimental value for one's own living space.
Despite the beautiful vacation, there's no place like home.
Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Connection
The word often implies a personal, warm, or secure atmosphere associated with one's own living space.
After traveling, I miss the comfort of home.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Saying
The phrase 'there's no place like home' expresses a deep sentimental value for one's own living space.
Despite the beautiful vacation, there's no place like home.
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Video examples
Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
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How to create a great...
and the home depot work by telling you exactly what the company does but these names can be a mouthful and are much harder to own and protect acronyms like ge and bp are just shorthand versions of descriptive names some acronyms are more strategic kentucky fried chicken switched to kfc
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
The sudden expansion of the diaphragm would raise air from the stomach, while a closure of the glottis would prevent milk from entering the lungs. Sometimes, a bout of hiccups will go on and on, and we try home sipping continuously from a glass of cold water, holding one's breath,
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Why the buildings of the...
work with us to design better buildings, better cities, and a better world, because the stakes are high. Buildings don't just reflect our society, they shape our society down to the smallest the local libraries, the homes where we raise our children,
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The Atlantic slave...
Afraid of being eaten, or just to avoid further suffering, they committed suicide or starved themselves, believing that in death, their souls would return home. Those who survived were completley dehumanized, treated as mere cargo.
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Where do superstitions...
who believed that trees were home to various spirits. Touching a tree would invoke the protection or blessing of the spirit within. And somehow, this tradition survived long after belief in these spirits had faded away.
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What makes a hero? -...
An invitation, a challenge? Assistance The hero needs some help, probably from someone older, wiser. Departure The hero crosses the threshold from his normal, safe home, and enters the special world and adventure.
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UK National Parks in 100...
blink six seconds and six percent of our walk is through crops peat bugs are large stores of water and carbon and are home to special wetland wildlife
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Army Ants Rampage...
Right across the raid front, prey of all sizes are driven from their hiding places. Even wasps must abandon their homes when the ants arrive.
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Planet Earth: A...
nurture the natural world which is after all our home
Video examples
Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
Video examples
How to create a great...
and the home depot work by telling you exactly what the company does but these names can be a mouthful and are much harder to own and protect acronyms like ge and bp are just shorthand versions of descriptive names some acronyms are more strategic kentucky fried chicken switched to kfc
Video examples
Why do we hiccup? - John...
The sudden expansion of the diaphragm would raise air from the stomach, while a closure of the glottis would prevent milk from entering the lungs. Sometimes, a bout of hiccups will go on and on, and we try home sipping continuously from a glass of cold water, holding one's breath,
Video examples
Why the buildings of the...
work with us to design better buildings, better cities, and a better world, because the stakes are high. Buildings don't just reflect our society, they shape our society down to the smallest the local libraries, the homes where we raise our children,
Video examples
The Atlantic slave...
Afraid of being eaten, or just to avoid further suffering, they committed suicide or starved themselves, believing that in death, their souls would return home. Those who survived were completley dehumanized, treated as mere cargo.
Video examples
Where do superstitions...
who believed that trees were home to various spirits. Touching a tree would invoke the protection or blessing of the spirit within. And somehow, this tradition survived long after belief in these spirits had faded away.
Video examples
What makes a hero? -...
An invitation, a challenge? Assistance The hero needs some help, probably from someone older, wiser. Departure The hero crosses the threshold from his normal, safe home, and enters the special world and adventure.
Video examples
UK National Parks in 100...
blink six seconds and six percent of our walk is through crops peat bugs are large stores of water and carbon and are home to special wetland wildlife
Video examples
Army Ants Rampage...
Right across the raid front, prey of all sizes are driven from their hiding places. Even wasps must abandon their homes when the ants arrive.
Video examples
Planet Earth: A...
nurture the natural world which is after all our home
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Charles Barkley
American Baseball Player
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
American Boxer
Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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Rodney Dangerfield
American Comedian
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
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Garth Brooks
American Singer
I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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June Allyson
American Actress
I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
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Holly Willoughby
English Celebrity
My favourite place in the world is home.
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Ernie Johnson Jr.
That's real life, what is at home.
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Charles Barkley
American Baseball Player
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
American Boxer
Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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Rodney Dangerfield
American Comedian
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
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Garth Brooks
American Singer
I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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June Allyson
American Actress
I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
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Holly Willoughby
English Celebrity
My favourite place in the world is home.
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Ernie Johnson Jr.
That's real life, what is at home.
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