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Adjective
  • inside the country
    • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
    • the nation's internal politics
  • relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
    • my home town
  • used of your own ground
    • a home game
Verb
  • return home accurately from a long distance
    • homing pigeons
  • provide with, or send to, a home
Noun
  • an institution where people are cared for
    • a home for the elderly
  • 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
  • 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
  • place where something began and flourished
    • the United States is the home of basketball
  • the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
  • (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
  • 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
  • housing that someone is living in
    • he built a modest dwelling near the pond
    • they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
  • 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?
Adverb
  • to the fullest extent; to the heart
    • drove the nail home
    • drove his point home
    • his comments hit home
  • on or to the point aimed at
    • the arrow struck 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
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