home

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To return to its owner.
2. To seek or aim for something.

Adj

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

Adv

1. To one's home.
2. To one's home.
3. To one's home.
4. To one's home.
5. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
6. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
7. into the goal
8. into the right, proper or stowed position

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊm/

Etymology

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”)).

Sentences

He's home cooking dinner .

About eleven , I walked back to my home in Maybury because nothing seemed to be happening .

Crawley were drawn at home to Tranmere Rovers in the first round .