At Home

Definition: At Home

At Home

Adjective

1. Settled comfortably; "I don't yet feel at home here".

2. In your own home or country; "they were at home when I stopped by".

Adverb

1. (in sports) on the home team's field; "they played at home last night".

Noun

1. A reception held in your own home.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: At Home

Assemblage

Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark.

Content

Adjective: content, contented; satisfied; Verb: at ease, at one's ease, at home; with the mind at ease, sans souci, sine cura, easygoing, not particular; conciliatory; unrepining, of good comfort; resigned; (patient); cheerful.

Interiority

Adverb: internally; Adjective: inwards, within, in, inly; here in, there in, where in; ab intra, withinside; in doors, within doors; at home, in the bosom of one's family.

Presence

Adverb: here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield; here there and everywhere; (space); in presence of, before; under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona.

Crosswords: At Home

We shop at home, we surf the net and we feel emptier and lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

I spared no expense in making you feel right at home. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I've seen nothing, I should have stayed at home and found out what was really going on. (The Best Years of Our Lives; writing credit: MacKinlay Kantor; Robert E. Sherwood)

If you're gonna jerk off, why don't you just do it at home with a moist towel? (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

Well then, you must feel right at home eh? (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

She sits at home (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

There'd be trouble at home (Whip Appeal; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Perri Smith)

She chose to stay at home (I Wish; performing artist: Carl Thomas)

What would you do if your son was at home, (What Would You Do; performing artist: City High)

I could work all day and feel right at home (If I Could Make A Living; performing artist: Clay Walker)

Charity begins at home. Success begins at work. (references; author: unknown)

Most accidents happen at home. Maybe we should move. (references; author: unknown)

A perfect guest is one who makes his host feel at home. (references; author: unknown)

At Home (1968)

Do It at Home (1968)

The Seekers at Home (1966)

Safe at Home (1962)

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Shop At Home, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Help at Home, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Nixon Interviews with David Frost, Vol. 3: The War at Home and Abroad (reference)

• The Frugal Gourmet - Entertaining at Home (Six-Volume Boxed Set) (reference)

• Civil Defense-War at Home (reference)

• Dog owners guide to bathing,drying and brushing your dog at home (or anywhere) (reference)

• Breadline-Great Depression at Home (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Ford Kurtz - an aid At home in a modified boxcar CB and O #25094 Life on a level crew. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Penguins at home. In: "The Voyage of the CHALLENGER - The Atlantic" Vol I, by Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 1878. P. 171. Library Call Number Q 115.C59 1878. v. 2. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Caption: Phonograph Recording at Home of Col. George E. Gouraud, Little Menlo; Upper Norwood, Surrey, England; December, 1888; {29.440/2} (jpg).

This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas..

Emergency treatment at home for a victim of a stroke. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Almasy..

Rita was not at home when Valerie came into their little apartment : the parrot greeted her, shrieking from his perch. Credit: Library of Congress.

You are needed at home, I wrote to father. Mother is leading her own life. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sorry boys -- I've something to kick around here at home. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salesmanship begins at home. Credit: Library of Congress.

At home in the saddle - Pres. Roosevelt on a 60 mile ride, Laramie to Cheyenne, Wyo. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And so whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any common-wealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees; by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home, only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries, and secure the community from inroads and invasion. (Second Treatise of Government)

They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. (reference)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (reference)

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He had told her that he could not allow himself the pleasure of stopping at Hartfield, as he was to be at home by the middle of the day.

His Lordship and Lady Muriel are at home.

He was at home in five minutes.

Monsieur Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home busy repairing a harness.

He wondered if they were arguing at home about that.

Just study a few easy lessons at home.

The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.

Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Biofeedback can be practiced at home with a portable monitor. (references)

The test is painless and can be done at home or in the doctor's office. (references)

The best place for the baby's growth and development is at home with the family. (references)

Business

Largely because of the less-than-optimum situation at home, Kuwaiti's are increasingly seeking study opportunities abroad. (references)

As an example, medical progress now permits tube feeding of premature babies at home so they may be leave the hospital sooner. (references)

In a general context, more and more patients are choosing to remain at home, where they can enjoy a more comfortable and familiar environment. (references)

Children

Eritrea

In rural areas, young girls usually leave school early to work at home. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

The Domestic Violence Act provides protection for children abused at home. (references)

Fiji

Persons with mental disabilities largely are separated from society and normally are supported at home by their families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Maldives

Citizens are free to travel at home and abroad, to emigrate, and to return. (references)

Peru

The commission also advises citizens who fear persecution at home and seek asylum abroad. (references)

Pakistan

The refugee community expressed increasing fear of deportation, and cited this fear as the reason why more male family members remained at home, thus reducing family income. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Over one million people now use a PC at home or in the workplace in Ireland. (references)

Ukraine

At home, pension and wage arrears were paid off, lifting consumer spending and consumer confidence. (references)

Belgium

It is estimated that 44 percent of Belgians have access to the Internet, either at home or in the office. (references)

Human Rights

Hungary

Some programs allow prisoners to spend weekends at home. (references)

Chad

When they did not find Assingar at home, the forces beat his children and left. (references)

Peru

At home, Ayaucan complained of abdominal pain and was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

One continuing dispute has been over the desire of parents who consider themselves Turkish to educate their children in Turkish despite the fact that they do not speak Turkish at home. (references)

Greece

Northwestern Greece is home to an indeterminate number--estimates range widely, from under 10,000 to 50,000 or more--of citizens who speak a Slavic dialect at home, particularly in Florina province. (references)

Political Economy

BOLIVIA

Low rates of inflation at home and abroad have helped to lower interest rates. (references)

Political Rights

Tanzania

One operator reported that his family received threatening telephone calls at home for refusing to comply with the request. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

They generally keep their savings at home. (references)

Taiwan

Moreover, many Taiwan investors, especially large-sized companies, employ financial instruments (including corporate bonds) to raise funds in capital markets both at home and abroad. (references)

Travel

Qatar

Only holders of a special permit may serve alcoholic drinks at home. (references)

Indonesia

At home, wash and soak all local fruit and vegetables in Clorox-treated, soapy water. (references)

Qatar

In recent years, Qataris have been giving up their age-old tradition of hosting ceremonial dinners at home. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Most women prayed at home alone or with other family members. (references)

Bolivia

Young girls often leave school early to work at home or in the economy. (references)

Morocco

Some families also keep girls at home because of the lack of facilities in rural schools. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

Other children and adolescents work either in formally established enterprises or as unpaid workers at home. (references)

Mexico

The union and employers were unable to convince indigenous farm workers to leave their families at home, and many settled near work sites in the north. (references)

China

Victims of trafficking face threats of being turned in to the authorities as illegal immigrants and threats of retaliation against their families at home if they protest the situation in which they find themselves. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "at home": be at home ♦ be at home to ♦ be at home to visitors ♦ charity begins at home ♦ daughter living at home ♦ evening at home ♦ feel at home ♦ feel oneself at home ♦ he is not at home ♦ Interjection: look at home ♦ is he at home now? ♦ left at home ♦ living at home ♦ play at home to ♦ sit at home doing nothing ♦ stay at home ♦ stop at home ♦ they are at home ♦ To be at home on any subject ♦ To feel at home ♦ To make one's self at home ♦ wash one's dirty linen at home. Additional references.

Afrikaans

tuis (at). (various references)

Albanian

shtëpiak (domestic, household, indoor, stay at home). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملازم البيت (stay at home), ‏الملازم لبيته (stay at home). (various references)

Bulgarian 

домошар (stay at home). (various references)

Chinese 

�"至如歸 (a home away from home, guests feel at home). (various references)

Czech

doma (indoors, inside, within). (various references)

Danish

hjemme. (various references)

Dutch

thuis (home). (various references)

Esperanto

hejme. (various references)

Faeroese

við hús, inni, heima. (various references)

Finnish

kotonani (in my home), kotona, kotoisin. (various references)

French

réception, chez soi. (various references)

Frisian

thús (home). (various references)

German

zu hause (home, in, indoor, indoors, on the home front), daheim (home). (various references)

Greek 

κατά οίκον. (various references)

Guarani

ógape (in the house). (various references)

Hungarian

otthon (fireside, hearth, home, hostel, in doors, indoors, place, to keep within doors, to stick indoors), itthon. (various references)

Indonesian

kerasan (feel at home), betah (feel at home, feel like home, stay). (various references)

Italian

in casa (at, indoor, indoors, within), a casa (at, home). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膝下 (at the knees of one's parents), アダ� スストークス症候群 (accelerando, achievement test, Adams-Stokes syndrome, adult, adult education, adult shop, adult video, assembly, at, at bat, attenuator, axe, sex shop, upper, uppercut, upper-middle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しっか (accidental fire, at the knees of one's parents), アットホー� . (various references)

Lombard

a c� . (various references)

Luganda

awaka. (various references)

Manx

giense thie. (various references)

Papiamen

na kas, na cas. (various references)

Pig Latin

atay omehay

Portuguese

no pa�s, em casa (home). (various references)

Romanian

acaså, acasã (home, in), zi (date, day, daylight, days, light, times), seratã (entertainment, evening, evening party, party, soiree), petrecere (amusement, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), orã de primire. (various references)

Russian 

дома. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čovek koji ne izbija iz kuće (stay at home). (various references)

Sotho

lapeng, hae. (various references)

Spanish

en casa (indoors, in-house). (various references)

Swedish

hemma (home, in). (various references)

Turkish

kabul günü, evde (home, in, indoors, within doors), ev toplantısı. (various references)

Turkmen 

jaяlaюdyrmak (house, make at home). (various references)

Ukrainian

удома. (various references)

Welsh

gartref (home). (various references)

Xhosa

ekhaya. (various references)

Zulu

ekhaya. (various references)

intus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mahoe.

-2 letters: ahem, atom, eath, haem, haet, hame, hate, heat, home, mate, math, meat, meta, meth, moat, mote, moth, oath, tame, team, thae, them, toea, tome.

-3 letters: ate, eat, eta, eth, hae, ham, hao, hat, hem, het, hoe, hot, mae, mat, met, mho, moa, mot, oat, ohm, tae, tam, tao, tea, the, tho.

+1 letter: apothem, teraohm.

+2 letters: apothegm, apothems, atheroma, chromate, fathomed, headmost, hecatomb, hematoid, hematoma, hemostat, hepatoma, homestay, hotelman, metaphor, methadon, methanol, moschate, outshame, somewhat, teraohms.

+3 letters: anthemion, apothegms, atheromas, chromates, earthworm, ethmoidal, hammertoe, heartsome, heartworm, hecatombs, hectogram, hematomas, hemostats, hepatomas, homeopath, homestays, homestead, housemate, loathsome, metaphors, methadone, methadons, methanols, moustache, outshamed, outshames, overmatch, somewhats, stomached, stomacher.