home

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Meaning

1. A dwelling.
2. A dwelling.
3. A dwelling.
4. A dwelling.
5. A dwelling.
6. A dwelling.
7. A dwelling.
8. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
9. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
10. A focus point.
11. A focus point.
12. A focus point.
13. A focus point.
14. (informal) A focus point.
15. Clipping of home directory.

dwelling house

place of residence

place of origin

address

place to live

native country

zero position

birth-place

home beer

kinship group

place of habitation

place of living

one’s folks

one’s family

breeding place

best place

living place

fine house

start point

geographical area

out-of-school

starting location

permanent dwelling

homelyn

in the small

final destination

apt.

ap’t

back

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empty village

accommodation unit

family life

living quarters

native place

place of birth

poignant

residential building

residential house

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊm/

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. cognates Germanic cognates: see *haimaz. Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

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