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[hyoom] /hyum/

noun
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Lord, .
/həʊm/
noun
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the place or a place where one lives: have you no home to go to?
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a house or other dwelling
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a family or other group living in a house or other place
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a person’s country, city, etc, esp viewed as a birthplace, a residence during one’s early years, or a place dear to one
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the environment or habitat of a person or animal
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the place where something is invented, founded, or developed: the US is the home of baseball
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(sport) one’s own ground: the match is at home
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(lacrosse)

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(baseball) another name for home plate
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(NZ, informal, obsolete) Britain, esp England
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a home from home, a place other than one’s own home where one can be at ease
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at home

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at home in, at home on, at home with, familiar or conversant with
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(Brit, informal) home and dry, definitely safe or successful: we will not be home and dry until the votes have been counted Austral. and NZ equivalent home and hosed
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near home, concerning one deeply
adjective (usually prenominal)
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of, relating to, or involving one’s home, country, etc; domestic
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(of an activity) done in one’s house: home taping
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effective or deadly: a home thrust
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(sport) relating to one’s own ground: a home game
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(US) central; principal: the company’s home office
adverb
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to or at home: I’ll be home tomorrow
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to or on the point
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to the fullest extent: hammer the nail home
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(of nautical gear) into or in the best or proper position: the boom is home
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bring home to

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(nautical) come home, (of an anchor) to fail to hold
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come home to, to become absolutely clear to
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(informal) nothing to write home about, to be of no particular interest: the film was nothing to write home about
verb
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(intransitive) (of birds and other animals) to return home accurately from a distance
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often foll by on or onto. to direct or be directed onto a point or target, esp by automatic navigational aids
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to send or go home
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to furnish with or have a home
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(intransitive; often foll by in or in on) to be directed towards a goal, target, etc
/hjuːm/
noun
1.
Baron, See Home of the Hirsel
n.

Old English ham “dwelling, house, estate, village,” from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (cf. Old Frisian hem “home, village,” Old Norse heimr “residence, world,” heima “home,” Danish hjem, Middle Dutch heem, German heim “home,” Gothic haims “village”), from PIE root *tkei- “to settle, dwell, be home” (cf. Sanskrit kseti “abides, dwells,” Armenian shen “inhabited,” Greek kome, Lithuanian kaimas “village;” Old Church Slavonic semija “domestic servants”).

‘Home’ in the full range and feeling of [Modern English] home is a conception that belongs distinctively to the word home and some of its Gmc. cognates and is not covered by any single word in most of the IE languages. [Buck]

Home stretch (1841) is originally a reference from horse racing. Home base in baseball attested by 1859 (home plate by 1867; home as the goal in a sport or game is from 1778). Home economics first attested 1899. Slang phrase make (oneself) at home “become comfortable in a place one does not live” dates from 1892. To keep the home fires burning is from a song title from 1914. To be nothing to write home about “unremarkable” is from 1907. Home movie is from 1919; home computer is from 1967.

v.

1765, “to go home,” from home (n.). Meaning “be guided to a destination by radio signals, etc. (of missiles, aircraft, etc.) is from 1920; it had been used earlier in reference to pigeons (1862). Related: Homed; homing. Old English had hamian “to establish in a home.”

Related Terms

bring home the bacon, home boy, money from home, nobody home, nothing to write home about