home

Meaning

Noun

1. A dwelling.
2. A dwelling.
3. A dwelling.
4. A dwelling.
5. A dwelling.
6. (broadly) A dwelling.
7. (broadly) 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. (Internet) A focus point.
14. (informal) A focus point.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of home directory.

Verb

To return to its owner.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
2. (archaic, not-comparable) That strikes home; direct, pointed.
3. (not-comparable, obsolete) Personal, intimate.
4. (not-comparable) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).

Adv

1. (not-comparable) To one's home.
2. (not-comparable) To one's home.
3. (not-comparable) To one's home.
4. (Internet, not-comparable) To one's home.
5. (not-comparable) At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
6. (not-comparable) To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
7. (UK, not-comparable) into the goal
8. (not-comparable) into the right, proper or stowed position

Opposite of

away, road, visitor

Synonyms

house

🏠

residence

dwelling

abode

family

👪

household

domicile

place

native land

habitation

domestic

homeland

shelter

building

accommodation

country

at home

dwelling house

camp

habitat

homeward

motherland

fatherland

hut

🛖

place of residence

village

hearth

birthplace

nest

homestead

mansion

dwelling place

dwelling-place

compound

interior

housing

hometown

asylum

place of origin

room

native

home base

den

base

menage

lodging

apartment

mother country

internal

kraal

Translations

maison

🏠

casa

🏠

casa

🏠

casa

🏠

lar

🏠

Heim

🏠

hogar

🏠

domicile

à la maison

Haus

🏠

Wohnung

huis

🏠

thuis

domus

🏠

ev

🏠

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hōm

Inherited from Old English: hām

Cognate with Irish: caoimh

Cognate with Lithuanian: kaimas

Cognate with Albanian: komb

Cognate with Church Slavic: сѣмь

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κώμη

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κεῖμαι

Cognate with Latin: civis

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈

Cognate with Sanskrit: शये

In summary

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), 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”)).

Sentences

Despite this she would bring back home people who needed help .

He had been suffering ever since a fall in his home earlier that month .

He's home cooking dinner .

Curses , like chickens come home to roost .

The name "Vesterheim" appropriately comes from the Norwegian for " western home ".

It is home to some of largest South-African urban agglomerations .