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Definition: Home

Home

Adjective

1. (sport) used of your own ground; "a home game".

2. Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town".

3. Having controlling authority; where important decisions are made; "home base"; "home ofice".

4. Relating to or taking place in a home or house or household; "home cooking"; "home furnishings"; "home care for the elderly".

5. Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics".

Adverb

1. 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".

2. On or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home".

3. To the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home".

Noun

1. Where you live; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?".

2. Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless".

3. 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".

4. 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".

5. An institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly".

6. The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.

7. 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".

8. (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".

9. Place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball".

Verb

1. Provide with, or send to, a home.

2. Return home accurately from a long distance, as of some birds; "homing pigeons".

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

Date "home" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Home

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

To follow a path of energy waves, especially radio or radar waves, by means of a directional antenna, radar equipment, or other sensing devices, to or toward the point of transmission or reflection of the waves. (references)

Computing

A homing making use of a radio apparatus, normally a transmitter, situated at the point to which the craft is to be steered. Source: European Union. (references)
 The beinning position of a cursor on a terminal screen, usually in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of visiting your old home, you will have good news to rejoice over.
To see your old home in a dilapidated state, warns you of the sickness or death of a relative. For a young woman this is a dream of sorrow. She will lose a dear friend.
To go home and find everything cheery and comfortable, denotes harmony in the present home life and satisfactory results in business. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Electrical Engineering

The rest position to which wipers in homing-type switches return on completion of a call and release of the switch. Source: European Union. (references)

Finance

A residential structure containing one to four dwelling units, or a condominium unit, regardless of the number of units in the building. (references)

Law

Permanent legal residence. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Home (1 syl.). (Anglo-Saxon, ham.) Our long home, the grave.
Who goes home? When the House of Commons breaks up at night the door-keeper asks this question of the members. In bygone days all members going in the direction of the Speaker's residence went in a body to see him safe home. The question is still asked, but is a mere relic of antiquity. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

N. of Eng. In the direction of, or toward, the shaft, as in an undergroundmine. Outby. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Henry Home, Lord Kames

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) was a Scottish philosopher of the 18th century. Born in Kames, Berwickshire, he became a barrister and was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1752, he was "raised to the bench", thus acquiring the title of Lord Kames. His works included Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751), Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761), Elements of Criticism (1762), and Sketches of the History of Man (1776).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Henry Home, Lord Kames."

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Home computer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Home Computer

Home Computer is a consumer-friendly word for the first generation of microcomputers (the technical term that was previously used). The home computer became affordable for the general public due to the development of the silicon chip based microprocessor.

In a manner resembling the expansion of new animal forms in the Cambrian period, large numbers of new machines of all types, including such exotica as the Forth-based Jupiter ACE appeared on the market, and disappeared again. A few types remained for much longer, some, such as the BBC Micro and Commodore 64 still having a devoted following. However by the end of the decade most were squeezed out between the IBM compatible Personal Computer and the newer generations of video game consoles because they each used their own incompatible formats. The IBM revolution was caused by the 1981 release of the IBM PC (5150).

Many of these computers were superficially similar, having a usually very cheap-to-manufacture keyboard integrated into the processor unit and displaying output on a home television. Many used compact audio cassettes as a (notoriously unreliable) storage mechanism since floppy disk drives were very expensive at the time. Cheapness was the order of the day for most of these machines.

Almost all computers employ an operating system (OS) which acts as an interface between the operator and the computer's internal hardware (memory, CPU, etc). Home computers most often had their OS, of which one part was usually a BASIC interpreter, stored in one or more ROM chips. The term software commonly denoted application programs sitting 'above' the OS to perform a specific task, e.g. wordprocessors or games.

As many older computers have become obsolete it has become popular amongst enthusiasts to enable one type of computer to emulate another via the use of emulation software. Thus, many of the operating environments for the computers listed below can be recreated on a modern PC.

The home computer was commonly based on 8-bit microprocessor technology, typically the MOS Technologies 6502 or the Zilog Z80. During the early to mid-1980s a large variety of 8-bit home computers were designed and marketed. These were then gradually supplanted by the PC and its competing 16-bit (Motorola 68000-based) home/personal computers appearing from 1984 onwards.

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House

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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A house in its most general sense is a human erected structure, consisting of enclosing walls and having a roof. It provides shelter against precipitation, wind, heat, cold and intruding humans and animals. People may be away from home most of the day for work and recreation, but typically are home at least for sleeping.

A house generally has at least one entrance, usually in the form of a door or a portal, and may have any number of windows or not at all.

An alternative is living in an apartment in a larger building.

Houses have been used as living quarters for humans since prehistoric times, soon after they left caves, and construction materials, styles and methods of construction have varied wildly over time.

Popular modern house construction techniques include stick-frame construction in areas with abundant wood and rammed-earth construction in arid regions with scarce wood resources.

Early European houses were mere single roomed shacks without windows in which entire families and their cattle lived, keeping the house and each other relatively warm during winter.

Among the first examples (according to the estimated age of archaeological retrievals), notable are the palafittes.

See also:

Simpler forms of shelter include a tent, camper, a roof without walls, or a structure with roof and partial walls, such as often at a bus stop (see picture there).

In history, a House is a dynasty, a familiar descendance, often in the sense of Royal House.

In music, House refers to

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John Home

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

John Home (September 22, 1722 - September 5, 1808) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.

He was born at Leith, where his father, Alexander Home, a distant relative of the earls of Home, was town clerk. John was educated at the grammar school in Leith, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MA, in 1742. Though interested in being a soldier, he studied divinity, and was licensed by the presbytery of Edinburgh in 1745. In the same year he joined as a volunteer against Bonnie Prince Charlie, and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Falkirk (1746). With many others he was carried to the castle of Doune in Perthshire, but soon escaped.

In July 1746 Home was presented to the parish of Athelstaneford, Haddingtonshire, left vacant by the death of Robert Blair. He had leisure to visit his friends and became especially intimate with David Home who belonged to the same family as himself. His first play, Agis: a tragedy, founded on Plutarch's narrative, was finished in 1747. He took it to London and submitted it to David Garrick for representation at Drury Lane, but it was rejected as unsuitable for the stage. The tragedy of Douglas was suggested to him by hearing a lady sing the ballad of Gil Morrice or Child Maurice (FJ Child, Popular Ballads, ii. 263). The ballad supplied him with the outline of a simple and striking plot.

After five years, he completed his play and took it to London for Garrick's opinion. It was rejected, but on his return to Edinburgh his friends resolved that it should be produced there. It was performed on December 14 1756 with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation. Home wisely resigned his charge in 1757, after a visit to London, where Douglas was brought out at Covent Garden on March 14. Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Sarah Siddons. David Hume summed up his admiration for Douglas by saying that his friend possessed "the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and licentiousness of the other." Gray, writing to Horace Walpole (August, 1757), said that the author "seemed to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years," but Samuel Johnson held aloof from the general enthusiasm, and averred that there were not ten good lines in the whole play (Boswell, Life, ed. Croker, 1348, p. 300).

In 1758 Home became private secretary to Lord Bute, then secretary of state, and was appointed tutor to the prince of Wales; and in 1760 his patron's influence procured him a pension of £300 per annum and in 1763 a sinecure worth another £500. Garrick produced Agis at Drury Lane on February 21 1758. By dint of good acting and powerful support, according to Genest, the play lasted for eleven days, but it was lamentably inferior to Douglas. In 1760 his tragedy, The Siege of Aquileia, was put on the stage, Garrick taking the part of Aemilius. In 1769 another tragedy, The Fatal Discovery ran for nine nights; Alonzo also (1773) had fair success; but his last tragedy, Alfred (1778), was so coolly received that he gave up writing for the stage.

In 1778 he joined a regiment formed by the Duke of Buccleuch. He sustained severe injuries in a fall from horseback which permanently affected his brain, and was persuaded by his friends to retire. From 1767 he resided either at Edinburgh or at a villa which he built at Kilduff near his former parish. It was at this time that he wrote his History of the Rebellion of 1745, which appeared in 1802. Home died at Merchist,on Bank, near Edinburgh, in his eighty-sixth year.

The Works of John Home were collected and published by Henry Mackenzie in 1822 with "An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr John House," which also appeared separately in the same year, but several of his smaller poems seem to have escaped the editor's observation. These are--"The Fate of Caesar," "Verses upon Inveraray," "Epistle to the Earl of Eglintoun," "Prologue on the Birthday of the Prince of Wales, 1759" and several "Epigrams," which are printed in vol. ii. of Original Poems by Scottish Gentlemen (1762). See also Sir W Scott, "The Life and Works of John Home" in the Quarterly Review (June, 1827). Douglas is included in numerous collections of British drama. Voltaire published his Le Gaffe, ou l'Ecossaise (1760), Londres (really Geneva), as a translation from the work of Hume, described as pasteur de l'église d'Edimbourg, but Home seems to have taken no notice of the mystification.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "John Home."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Home

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

HOME

EnglishHome systemsN/A
HOEnglishHome OfficePublic Administration

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Home

Synonyms: home(a) (adj), interior(a) (adj), internal (adj), national (adj), abode (n), base (n), domicile (n), dwelling (n), dwelling house (n), family (n), habitation (n), home plate (n), house (n), household (n), menage (n), nursing home (n), place (n), plate (n), rest home (n). (additional references)
Antonym: away (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Home

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Focus

Noun: focus; point of convergence; corradiation; center; gathering place, resort haunt retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot; (store); trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue.

Nearness

Adjective: near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.

Quiescence

Resting place; gite; bivouac; home; (abode); pillow; (support); haven; (refuge); goal; (arrival).

Refuge

Noun: refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison; asylum, ark, home,Noun: refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison; asylum, ark, home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse; hiding place; (ambush); sanctum sanctorum; (privacy).

Sociality

Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Home

English words defined with "home": at homebring homedrive homego homehead home, hit home, home appliance, home brew, home court, home equity credit, home equity loan, home folks, home game, Home lot, home movie, home rule, Home ruler, home run, Home Secretarynursing homepress homeram home, rest homeSecretary of State for the Home Department, strike homeTo bring home, To make one's self at home, To tumble homevacation home. (references)
Specialty definitions using "home": American Indian Area, Alaska Native Area, Hawaiian Home Land, American Indian area/Alaska Native area/Hawaiian home landcare homeDental Devices, Home Care, director of home economicsFederal home heating and cooling assistance program, Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank Boardgroup homeHawaiian home land, Hemodialysis, Home, home agent, home and school visitor, HOME ATTENDANT, home box, home bus, Home Care Services, home channels, Home Childbirth, home electronic systems, Home Energy Rating Systems, home health aide, home machine, Home Nursing, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, home page, Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, Home port doctrine, Home, Sweet Home, housekeeper, homeintelligent homeLanguage spoken at homemanufactured home, mobile home loanNot at HomeSUPERVISOR, HOME RESTORATION SERVICETEACHER, HOME, TEACHER, HOME THERAPYusual home elsewhereVirtual Home Environmentwhole household usual home elsewhere. (references)
Etymologies containing "home": nostalgia. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Home" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Asturian (husband), Catalan (human being, man), Finnish (mildew, mould), Galician (man), German (home), Pidgin English (home).

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Modern Usage: Home

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts every time I bring a girlfriend home from school (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Well maybe we shouldn't be talking about this just now, with you barely home. Aren't you hungry, honey (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

But this is my home. (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Look Hildy, I only acted like any husband that didn't want his home broken up. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

Lyrics

Gotta get you home with me tonight (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY)

That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home (You're My Home; performing artist: Joe)

Country roads, take me home ("Take Me Home Country Roads"; performing artist: John Denver)

Baby won't you walk with me home (Walk me home; performing artist: Mandy Moore)

So take, take me home (Take Me Home; performing artist: Phil Collins)

Clever

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Guests should not forget to go home. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

Love makes a house a home. (references; author: unknown)

A king's castle is his home. (references; author: unknown)

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

Tongue Twisters

She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicing him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him home. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Road Home (2003)

Long Ride Home (2003)

The Big House Ain't a Home (1974)

Home Grown (1974)

Coming Home (1973)

Song Titles

I Wanna Go Home (performing artist: Lonnie Donegan)

Bring The Boys Home (performing artist: Freda Payne)

Home and Dry (performing artist: Gerry Rafferty)

Daddy's Home (performing artist: Jermaine Jackson)

Let's Stay Home Tonight (performing artist: Joe)

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

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Commercial Usage: Home

DomainTitle

References

  • American Home Mortgage Holdings, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Eyeful Home Technology Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Harvest Home Financial Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • KB Home: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Kiing Home Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Louis L'Amour Gift Set: Long Ride Home, Borden Chantry, Californios, Son of a Wanted Man, to Tame a Land (reference)

  • Home Song: A Cape Light Novel (reference)

  • You Okay, Chappy: Memories of Infantry Field Chaplain Wwii, and His Wife on the Home Front (reference)

  • Home Remedies: Hydrotherapy, Massage, Charcoal, and Other Simple Treatments (reference)

  • Classic Chic: Timeless Decorating That's Always in Style (Chatelaine Home Decor) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

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

  • Breadline-Great Depression at Home (reference)

  • Burglar Proofing Your Home (reference)

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

  • Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias: The Home Video (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Home

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Photo Album: Home

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A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting chatting with her mother. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The R.A. Bloch Building, donated to the National Cancer Institute by several American businessmen is now the home of PDQ, an information service for physicians. The International Cancer Information Center (ICIC), the technical information office, and the JNCI staff. The building was dedicated in October 1983. The physician's data query, PDQ, is a new computerized information system developed by the National Cancer Institute to disseminate up-to-date information on cancer treatment. Using state-of-the-art computers, PDQ makes recent advances in cancer treatment readily available to physicians nationwide. Credit: Lew Bass (photographer).

In December 2002, CDC Clinicians trained state licensed vaccine administers how to deliver smallpox vaccine safely and efficiently. Once training was completed, they provided additional smallpox vaccine administration training in their home states. Credit: CDC.

Photograph of NCID Internet home page. Credit: CDC.

STS-26 Welcome Home Ceremony. Credit: NASA.

Imagine turning your home computer into the equivalent of a professional telescope which can ... Credit: NASA.

This Hubble telescope image [right] reveals a faint galaxy, the home of a quasar. The wealth ... Credit: NASA.

The Ganges River forms an extensive delta where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. The delta is largely covered with a swamp forest known as the Sunderbans, which is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger. Credit: NASA.

Civilization and Billy didn't work out Billy at Seattle - afraid of the cars Billy was given a new home at the Seattle zoo. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Jack Sammons' mobile home - 1940. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Home
 

"Cozy home" by Michelle Phillips
Commentary: "Picture of really nice home in a light snow fall."
"Havana in home" by Federico Rocco
Commentary: "Havana's corner in home."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Home

AuthorQuotation

Beaumont and Fletcher

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Oscar Wilde

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Pliny The Elder

Home is where the heart is.

Samuel Johnson

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

Sextus Aurelius Propertius

Never change when love has found its home.

Swedish Proverb

Guests should not forget to go home.

William Shakespeare

He hath eaten me out of house and home.
People usually are the happiest at home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Home

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And thus in Israel itself, the chief business of their judges, and first kings, seems to have been to be captains in war, and leaders of their armies; which (besides what is signified by going out and in before the people, which was, to march forth to war, and home again in the heads of their forces) appears plainly in the story of lephtha. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

United Nations

1948

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. (reference)

John F. Kennedy

1961

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Home

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

The word home made his father look on him with fresh complacency

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

His Lordship and Lady Muriel are at home.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

He was at home in five minutes

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Before Mr. Dimmesdale reached home, his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The bishop went home deeply absorbed in thought

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He wondered if they were arguing at home about that

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

When the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I saw nothing in this country that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home to England

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Home

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Consumer education about home canning. (references)

You may be able to return home soon after the vitrectomy. (references)

When you are home, try not to bend or lift heavy objects. (references)

Business

Home usage of the Internet is growing more slowly. (references)

Imports of home health care products were not large. (references)

It led to the acquisition of Home Cable and Smartcom. (references)

Children

Russia

An estimated 50,000 children run away from home each year. (references)

Brazil

Some are homeless, but the majority returned home at night. (references)

Switzerland

After 3 months, they must return to their home country for 1 month. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

High prices limit home usage. (references)

Venezuela

The Colombians returned home voluntarily. (references)

United Kingdom

At year's end, the Home Office still was considering the report. (references)

Discrimination

Monaco

It differentiates between rights that are accorded to nationals (including preference in employment, free education, and assistance to the ill or unemployed) and those accorded to all residents, for example, freedom of religion and inviolability of the home. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

It is home to some 1,300 U.S. companies. (references)

Russia

The region is home to 13 million people. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

They allowed him to go home after the beating. (references)

Hungary

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

Cambodia

One such person was located by a local NGO in his home village. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

Western Australia continued to retain its mandatory sentencing laws, which provide that a person (adult or juvenile) who commits the crime of home burglary three or more times is subject to a mandatory minimum prison sentence. (references)

Guyana

In 1998 the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs admitted that the Amerindian Act was antiquated and expressed a commitment to update it, although it has taken no action to do so. The Government has long maintained that it is committed to demarcating lands that traditionally have been the home of Amerindians. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

Merenson was injured and his home was damaged. (references)

Political Economy

Costa Rica

Costa Rica is also home to some 30,000 U.S. citizens. (references)

Rwanda

Police forcibly entered the home of an opposition politician. (references)

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)

Indonesia

Some observers are concerned that the new KPU secretariat would remain administratively dependent upon the Ministry of Home Affairs. (references)

Zimbabwe

Legal rights groups argued that the new requirement would disenfranchise voters who were unable to travel to their home constituencies. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

They generally keep their savings at home. (references)

Moldova

Gasoline and diesel oil, home electronics and automobiles are subject to excise taxes as well. (references)

Indonesia

See web home pages, including http://www.ita.doc.gov/mdbo for information on all development banks. (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)

Honduras

Armed car-jacking have been a problem and there have been incidents of home invasions. (references)

Women

Grenada

The home accommodates 20 persons. (references)

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)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The IOM has established a program to repatriate trafficked women who seek to return home. (references)

Benin

Most victims leave home with traffickers who promise educational opportunities or other incentives. (references)

Gabon

The children were assisted by Cameroon government officials and repatriated to their home countries. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

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

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Spoken Usage: Home

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

When buying home electronics, I always get the optional warranty.

Gennifer Flowers

My home had been ransacked, I had received threats. My mother received threats. People were getting beaten. I was afraid for my life basically.

Joan Rivers

Very close, and he said, Melissa, I'm coming home. I'll see you tomorrow. And he hung up the phone and killed himself.

Judy Sheindlin

Right. The tabloids will take a story, a lovely story, that we bought a home, and it's a home that we never dreamed we would own, and they made something evil out of it.

King Constantine of Greece

Well, at the moment, I'm in the courts with the Greek government, because they have made every effort to take away my home, and I've been fighting that in the European court of human rights.

Rush Limbaugh

Why, half of Canada comes down here to try to get medical coverage or for major surgery because of how long the waiting list is at home.

Sally Jessy Raphael

They've got bikes now, and they've got clothes. We don't do this very often, but someone who wants to remain anonymous wanted to give you something very special. The key goes to a new home.

Tim McGraw

I called my mom at work, and of course, she came immediately home. We drove around for a long time and she explained everything to me.

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

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Speeches: Home

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953With such authority, our veterans and other prospective home owners would be protected against a skyrocketing of home prices.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Strengthening the economy That task must begin at home.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Abroad, as at home, there is also risk in change.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Oh, the immediate reaction would be a sense of relief that our men were coming home.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Inflation has driven up home prices, operating costs and interest rates.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989It's not just the home but the workplace and community that sustain our values and shape our future.

George Bush

1989-1993Tell your grandchildren the story of struggles waged at home and abroad, of sacrifices freely made for freedom's sake.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Tonight I ask that he lead our nation's battle against drugs at home and abroad.

George W. Bush

2001-2005We are protected from attack only by vigorous action abroad, and increased vigilance at home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Home

"Home" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.40% of the time. "Home" is used about 52,403 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)64.4%33,747250
Adverb (general)35.34%18,520499
Noun (proper)0.26%13527,360
                    Total100.00%52,403N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Home

The following table summarizes the usage of "home" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HomeLast name13056,656
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Home

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "home".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
DardaN/ABiblical

Home of knowledge

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Home

CountryNameCountryName
Japan

Eyeful Home Technology Inc.

USA

American Home Mortgage Holdings, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Home


1. Home, KS
Zip Code(s): 66438
Country: USA


2. Home, PA
Zip Code(s): 15747
Country: USA


3. Home, WA
Zip Code(s): 98349
Country: USA

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Expressions: Home

Expressions using "home": adopted home ancestral home arrive home at home away from home baby home back home be at home be at home to be at home to visitors be away from home be home beachside home bring home bring home the bacon bring home to bring smth. home to smb. broken home care home charity begins at home clearance for home use come home come home with the milk community home convalescent home convalesent home daughter living at home detention home drag oneself home drive a nail home drive home drive home to drive smth. home eat out of house and home eat smb. out of house and home elderly home eternal home evening at home eventide home family home far from home federal Home Loan Bank System federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation feel at home feel oneself at home find a home for find a home for smth. for home reading for home use Forest Home foster home Foster Home Care from home funeral home furnished home Garden Home get home get home early get home late go back home go home go right home Going Home grant home leave group home hammer home hard home harvest home have neither hearth nor home he is not at home he left home head home head of the home hearth and home Highland Home hit home holiday home home address home affairs home agent home appliance home army home background home base home birth home box home box office home boy home bred home brew home building industry home bus home buyer home care Home Care Agencies Home Care Services home channels Home Childbirth home comforts home computer home contents. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "home": home-affairs, home-and, home-and-away, home-and-carstle, home-and-family-loving, home-and-home, home-appliance, home-applied, home-away, home-background, home-baked, home-baking, home-base, home-based, home-bases, home-beat, home-bird, home-birth, home-boarder, home-born, Home-bound, home-bread, home-bread bread, Home-bred, home-brew, home-brewed, home-brewers, home-brewing, home-bringers, home-budgeting, home-build, home-builders, home-built, home-'but, home-buyers, home-buying, home-by, home-care, home-centred, home-centredness, home-cholesterol, home-churned, home-collection, Home-coming, home-comings, home-computer, home-conditioning, home-construction, home-consumption, home-cooked, home-cooking, home-country, home-course, home-crafts, home-cum-office, home-cured, home-delivery, home-developed, home-distilling, Home-driven, home-drying, Home-dwelling, home-economics, home-entertainment, home-erotic, home-farm, Home-felt, home-finders, home-fitted, home-free, home-from-home, home-front, home-frozen, home-furnishings, home-garden, home-going, home-ground, home-grown, Home-guard, home-gym, home-heating, home-help, home-helps, home-improvement, home-improvers, home-in, home-in-one, home-interest, home-interview, Home-jazz, Home-keeping, home-killed, home-knitted, home-land, home-leave, home-life, home-like, home-listening, home-loan, home-loans, home-loss, home-loving, home-made, Home-made-wills, home-maker, home-makers, home-making, home-management, home-market, home-minding, home-movie, home-movies, home-moving, home-now, home-office, home-of-the-weird, home-order, home-orientated, home-owner, home-owners, home-ownership, home-owning, home-permed, home-potted, home-preference, home-prepared, home-preserved, home-produced, home-raised, home-range, home-ranges, home-reared, home-reference, home-regulated, home-related, home-remedy, home-responsibilities, home-rolled, home-room, home-rule, home-rulers, home-run, home-runs, home-saved, home-school, home-school-child, home-school-community, home-schooled, home-sellers, home-shopping, home-sick, home-side, home-space, Home-speaking, home-spun, home-start, home-straight, home-stretch, Home-students, home-style, home-taping, home-teaching, home-team, home-territory, home-they, home-time, home-to, home-to-home, home-town, home-to-work, home-truths, home-turn, home-use, home-video, home-videos, home-visiting, home-warmth, home-with-a-difference, home-work, home-workers, home-working, home-wrecking, home-written.

Ending with "home": Douglas-home, down-home, ex-home, h-home, holiday-home, home-from-home, motor-home, nursing-home, second-home.

Containing "home": come-home-and-all-will-be-forgiven, day-home for schoolchildren, not-at-home-department, seldom-at-home-secretary, Small-office-home-office, take-home pay.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Home

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

home depot

80,903

new home

5,259

home

30,755

home owner insurance

5,197

home for sale

14,541

home based business

5,010

home loan

11,991

manufactured home

4,942

how to work at home

11,973

home for rent

4,510

home theater

11,751

home improvement loan

4,333

home improvement

10,276

home decor

4,172

work from home

10,170

home theater speaker

4,084

home business

9,720

home rental

3,663

log home

7,628

home design

3,546

home garden

7,610

hud home

3,526

modular home

7,074

msn home page

3,498

home page

7,021

home loan countrywide

3,454

home plan

6,486

home mortgage

3,399

mobile home

6,387

home schooling

3,275

buying a home

6,084

home interior

3,272

home decorating

5,856

home value

3,144

home equity loan

5,746

country home

3,074

motor home

5,709

home builder

2,980

better home and garden

5,488

log home plan

2,891
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Home

Language Translations for "home"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

huis toe. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

habitat, në destinacion, amëtar (Natal, native, vernacular), banesë (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, house, inhabitation, living quarters, lodging, place, quarters, residence, shebang), familje (clan, family, house, household, kind, kinsfolk, lineage, name, people, phratry, stock), fus në shtëpi, çoj në shtëpi, kam shtëpi, vendlindje (birthplace, native land), në shenjë (on target), shkoj në shtëpi, shtëpi (abode, chalet, fire side, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, house, household, place, property, residence, roof, shebang), strehë (asylum, awning, cover, dwelling, hangout, Harbor, harbour, haven, hostel, house, housing, hovel, Lee, lodgement, lodgment, lurking place, mew, pad, peak, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roof, sanctuary, sanctum, sconce, shade, shed, shelter), strehoj (accommodate, billet, Canton, cover, embay, Harbor, harbour, haven, host, house, Lodge, quarter, refuge, resettle, shelter), vatër familjare, i vendit (domestic, inborn, native). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عاد للوطن, ‏بات (bed, categorical, decisive, roost, square, unqualified), ‏بعث به للوطن, ‏بيت (hearth, house, penates, residence), ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind), ‏أقام (banquet, build, dwell, erect, establish, institute, live, locate, lodge, occupy, perch, reinstate, reside, roost, sojourn, stay, tenant), ‏بإحكام, ‏الهدف (base, target), ‏في البيت (indoors), ‏وطن (country, establish, homeland, native land, populate, settle, soil), ‏مسقط الرأس (native land), ‏مسكن (abode, anodyne, apartment, assuasive, demulcent, easing, habitation, house, lenitive, lodging, palliative, quarters, relieving, residence, sedative, soothing), ‏محلي (domestic, local, municipal, native, regional, territorial, topical), ‏ملجأ (asylum, burrow, cover, harbor, harbour, haven, hideaway, hideout, lair, poorhouse, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter), ‏منزل (apartment, domicile, dwelling, flat, house, place, residence), ‏إلي النهاية. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

laphi (leaf). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

waahkayi (to go home). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

насочвам към цел, дом (abode, dwelling, hearth, homestead, house, inn, place), домашен (domestic, fireside, home-bred, homelike, homely, home-made, homespun, homey, homy, house, household, indoor), изпращам в къщи, приют (asylum, hospice, rest, retreat, shelter), приютявам (bestow, harbour, haver), база (base, basis, groundwork, jumping-off-place, substratum, warp, warp and woof), жилище (abode, dwelling, dwelling place, habitation, house, housing, inhabitation, lodging, place, quarters, residence, shebang, shop), живея (be, bide, breathe, burrow, dig, dwell, house, indwell, inhabit, live, range, reside, room, seat, subsist, walk), до финала, намирам пътя за дома, у дома (indoors), вкъщи (indoors, within), врата (door, gate, gateway, goal, hoop), вътрешен (domestic, endo-, in, indoor, inland, inner, inside, interior, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, mediterranean, mental), къща (abode, house, pad, premises, shebang), финал (final, finale, goal, payoff), роден (born, borne, domestic, german, germane, home-bred, native, natural, own, vernacular, whole), роднина (connection, homeland, kinsman, relation, relative, sib, tribesman), семеен (domestic), семейство (family, house, household, kin, kind, parentage, people, stock), метрополия (metropolis, mother country, parent state). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

故鄉 (homeland, native place), 家園 (homestead), 家庭 (Families, Family, fireside), (a person engaged in a certain art or profession, -er, family, -ian, -ist). (various references)

   

Cornish

  

tré. (various references)

   

Czech

  

habitat (habitat), vlast (country, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land), rodištì (birthplace), otèina (fatherland), domovina (homeland), domov (habitat), domù (homewards), domácnost (house, household, menage), domácí (brownie, domestic, domiciliary, homegrown, homelike, homemade, home-made, indoor, inland, internal, native, tame, vernacular), dùvìrný (close, confidential, esoteric, familiar, hail-fellow-well-met, hush hush, intimate, off the record, private, restricted, sensitive), dùm (building, house, place, residence), byt (apartment, flat, lodgings, residence, rooms). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hjem. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

naar huis, huiswaarts. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

hejmo, hejmen. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

heimeftir, heim. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

میهن (Motherland), منزل (Abode, House, Inn, Stage), مرزوبوم , وطن , خانه (Domicile, House, Lodge, Room, Shack, Socket), اقامت گاه , شهر (City, Parish, Town), بطرف خانه , بخانه برگشتن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

koti. (various references)

   

French

  

domicile. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

thús (at home). (various references)

   

German

  

zuhause (at home), nach hause (homewards), heim (asylum, at home, clubhouse, fireside, hall of residence, homewards, hostel, recreation center), haus (building, establishment, family, house, household, place, premises, property, shell, theater, theatre), heimat (fatherland, habitat, haunt, home country, home town, homeland, mother country, motherland, native country, native land). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατοικία (abode, domicile, dwelling, habitat, habitation, house, residence, residency, seat), σπίτι (house, household, property). (various references)

   

Guarani

  

ógape (at home, in the house). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בית (family, house, household). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

otthon (at home, fireside, hearth, hostel, in doors, indoors, place, to keep within doors, to stick indoors), haza (country, homeland, kith, mother country, motherland, native land). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

heim. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

rumah (house). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

angiqqaqtuq (to go home). (various references)

   

Irish

  

baile (town). (various references)

   

Italian

  

casa (dormitory, establishment, family, firm, firmament, flat, house, houseboat, household, labelable, place), ospizio (almshouse, hospice), nazionale (domestic, internal, national). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

巣窟 (den, hangout, haunt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たく (desk, high, house, husband, table, to boil, to build a fire, to burn, to cook, to kindle), ハイム , ホーム (platform), そうくつ (den, hangout, haunt), しゅうようじょ (asylum, camp), さと (village), ほんば (best place, center, galloping horse, genuine, habitat, runaway horse), せいそくち (habitat), せいか (chant, confectionery, essence, fame, flower, flower arrangement, fresh flowers, fruitand vegetables, fruits, glory, governing one's family, height of summer, hymn, influential family, lower abdomen, metallic currency, midsummer, net price, regular curriculum, regular price, reputation, request for leave of absence, required subject, results, sacred fire, sacred song, shoe-making, specie, the man in power, vacation request), かてい (assumption, course, curriculum, family, household, hypothesis, process, river bed, supposition), れいどう (mother), げんさんち (habitat, place of origin), じっか (practical course). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

가정 (Assumption, supposed, Supposing). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

a cà (at home). (various references)

   

Luganda

  

eka. (various references)

   

Manx

  

thie (building, domestic, habitation, homeward, house, indoor, residency), oayll (abode, habitat, haunt, hide, hideout, resort), dy valley (homeward), balley (base, farmstead, town). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hus (house, houses), hjem. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

ostal (family, house), fogal. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

na kas (at home), na cas (at home). (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

home. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omehay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

dom (house). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

casa (abode, building, edifice, fireside, habitation, house, house-, household, household franchise, inhabitation, pigsty, premises, roof, shebang). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

casa (house). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ajuns acasã, ţinut locuit de o anumitã populaţie, casnic (domestic, domesticated, family, homely, home-made, household, housewifely, menial, settled), casã (building, cash desk, cash-office, chest, cottage, dwelling, establishment, family, fireside, habitation, homestead, house, household, hovel, lodging, lodgment, pay desk, place, roof), care merge drept la ţintã, cãpãtâi (bedside, bolster, head of the bed, rest, roof, support), de baştinã, azil (asylum, hospice, hospital, institution, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), din metropolã, adãpost (bunker, burrow, cot, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, nest, niche, penthouse, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, sconce, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, stall, support), acasã (at home, in), întoarcere (return, reversion, turn, turning, twist), înapoiere (backwardness, restitution, restoration, restoring, return), în vecinãtatea londrei, în patrie, cãmin (chimney, fireplace, fireside, grate, hearth, hostel, mantelpiece, rest), local (local, parochial, regional, topical, vernacular), se întoarce acasã, revenire (come back, recurrence, return, troll), refugiu (asylum, covert, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, hiding, kennel, niche, pied a terre, recourse, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), patrie (birthplace, country, fatherland, homeland, mother country, motherland, soil), pãmânt natal (native soil), cuib (aerie, center, centre, den, hotbed, nest), locuinţã (abode, accommodations, apartment, digging, dwelling, homestead, house, housing, inhabitation, living, Lodge, lodging, lodgment, place, residence, rooms, tenement, whereabouts), vatrã (fireplace, grate, hearth, house, rabble), loc de baştinã, interior (dwelling, house, in, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, inward, Midland, midst), indigen (aboriginal, aborigine, domestic, home-bred, indigenous, native, vernacular), familiar (colloquial, common, familiar, familiarly, homelike, intimate, unceremonious, unceremoniously, usual), domiciliu (abode, domicile, dwelling place, house, inhabitation, living, residence, residency), domestic (domestic, household, menial, tame), metropolã (metropolis, parent state). (various references)

   

Romany

  

dòmos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

родной (native, own), родина (birth-place, country, habitat, homeland, motherland, native land, the old country), кров (shelter), жилище (abode, diggings, domicile, dwelling, habitation, inhabitation, lodgement, lodging, lodgment), домой (homeward, homewards), домашний (domestic, domiciliary, home grown, home-brewed, homelike, homely, homemade, homey, homy, pet), дом домашний домой, дом (building, dwelling, house, houses). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

fàrdach (a mansion, house, mansion), dhachaidh (homewards), dachaidh (a home, domicile;, residence). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

legae. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zavod (bureau, institute, office), zavičaj (blighty, homeland), kućni (domiciliary, indoor), kući (homeward, homewards), kuća (house, roof), domaći (domestic, home-bred, homelike, homemade, home-made, homey, homy, indigenous, inland, interior, native), dom (center, centre, chamber, house). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

casa. (various references)

   

Sotho

  

hae (at home), habo (her home), lapeng (at home). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

residencia (existence, hall, hostel, palace, residence, residency), punto de partida (starting point), casa (apartment, building, casa, dwelling house, edifice, flat, homestead, hostel, house, houseful, household, interior, lieu, menage, pad, place), asilo (asylum, haven, institution, refuge, sanctuary, shelter). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

lí-khâya. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hem (homes, house, place), hemma (at home, in), bostad (abode, accommodation, diggings, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, flat, habitation, housing, lodgings, place, quarters, residence). (various references)

   

Thai

  

บ้าน (drum, dwelling, gaff, house), มุ่งไปที่บ้าน, ภายในครัวเรือน. (various references)

   

Tswana

  

lapeng (come home). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hedeflemek (aim, aim at, have in one's sights, intend, sight, take aim at, work up, zero in on), hedef (aim, blank, bourn, Bourne, butt, clout, cock-shy, destination, goal, intention, land of promise, Mark, object, objective, promised land, purpose, rover, target, terminus), hedefe, hedefe ait, ülkesinde, aile ocağı (fold, hearth and home), bakımevi (hospital, nursery, nursing home), ev (accommodation unit, crib, domestic, domicil, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, habitation, hangout, house, household, housing, inhabitation, place, residence, rooms, settlement), evde (at home, in, indoors, within doors), evde yapılan, evdeki, eve (indoors, to home), eve ait (domestic, domiciliary, household), kale (bastion, Castle, citadel, Fort, fortress, goal, home plate, keep, rook, stronghold, tower, uprights), yurt (dig, diggings, digs, dorm, dormitory, hall, hall of residence, hostel, house, youth hostel), yurda, yurda dönmek, yuvasına dönmek, kendi sahası, kendi sahasında olan (home-and-home), sinyâllere göre yönelmek, tam yerine (plonk), vatan (Blighty, habitat, homeland, land, motherland, native land, native shore, old country, soil), vatana ait, vicdanına, yuva (burrow, creche, creep, day care center, fireside, fold, haunt, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, Holt, hotbed, mortice, mortise, nest, nidus, nursery, race, recess, seat, seed plot, seedbed, set). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яatakhana (hostel), ця (house). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рідний (akin, darling, full blood, full-blooded, native, own, whole), родинний (akin, cognate, kindred, relational, sib), вдома (in, within), на батьківщину (homeward, homewards), місцевий (aboriginal, domestic, home-bred, indigenous, local, locative, native, on site, on the spot, parochial, provincial, territorial, topical), місце проживання, житло (abode, apartment, dwelling, habitation, house, inhabitation, quarterage, tabernacle, tent), батьківщина (country, fatherland, habitat, homeland, motherland, native, native land), повертатися додому, перебувати (be, lie, remain, reside, stand about, tent), дім (house), домашній (barn-door, homelike, homely, homey, homy, pet), додому (homeward, homewards). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hồi hương, nơi an nghỉ cuối cùng, ở gia đình, ở nhà về nước, ở trong nước (inland, inner), chỗ ở nhà, dù trong dù đục ao nhà vẫn hơn nấm mồ, gia đình (family), đến nhà, không có gì hay ho thích thú, về quê hương trúng, nơi chôn nhau cắt rún, nhà (corner, plat), quen thuộc (habitual), tổ ấm quê hương, tổ quốc (country, fatherland, homeland, mother country, motherland), trở về nhà, trúng tim đen đến cùng vạch tội của ai, về nhà (homing), không có gì đặc biệt. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cartref (abode), adref (tohome). (various references)

   

Xhosa

  

ekhaya (At home). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

otoch. (various references)

   

Zulu

  

ilikhaya, ikhaya. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Home

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

tu. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

amasa, amasae, amasai, amasam, ara, arabes, arabum, araceum, arad, arae, aram, ararum, aras, aree, asa, asadiam, asaiam, asam, asamian, aseas, asum, domatibus, domatum, domi, domibus, domicilium, domo, domorum, domos, domui, domum, domus, domusque, focos, focum, focus, gerarae, habitacula, habitaculi, habitaculis, habitaculo, habitaculum, larum, patria, patriae, patriam, patrias, patriis, sede, sedechiae, sedechias, sedeciam, sedecias, sedei, sedem, sedes, sedi, sedibus, sedis, sedium, sedum, sisara, sisarae, sisaram. (various references)

Avestan200-600

nmâna. (various references)

Dutch700-Modern

honk. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

hom. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Home

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 20, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAphlqon oun palin proV eautouV oi maqhtai
Latin405VulgateAbierunt ergo iterum ad semet ipsos discipuli
Old English990West Saxonþa foran eft þa leorningcnihtes toþam oðrum.
Middle English1395WyclifTherfor the disciplis wenten eftsoone to hem silf.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home.
Jacobean English1611King JamesThen the disciples went away again unto their own home.
Victorian English1833WebsterThen the disciples went away again to their own home.
Basic English1964OgdenSo then the disciples went away again to their houses.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Home

LanguageJohn Chapter 20, Verse 10
CebuanoUnya ang mga tinun-an namauli sa ilang mga puloy-anan.
Chinese於 是 兩 個 門 徒 回 自 己 的 住 處 去 了 。
CroatianPotom se uèenici vratiše kuæi.
DanishDa gik Disciplene atter bort til deres Hjem.
DutchDe discipelen dan gingen wederom naar huis.
FinnishNiin opetuslapset menivät takaisin kotiinsa.
FrenchEt les disciples s`en retournèrent chez eux.
GermanDa gingen die Jünger wieder heim.
Haitian CreoleApre sa, tou de disip yo tounen lakay yo.
HungarianVisszamenének azért a tanítványok az övéikhez.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSesudah itu pengikut-pengikut Yesus itu pulang.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaLalu pulanglah mereka itu ke rumahnya.
ItalianI discepoli intanto se ne tornarono di nuovo a casa.
Korean이 에 두 제 자 가 자 기 집 으 로 돌 아 가 니 라
LatvianTad mâcekïi atkal atgriezâs savâ mîtnç.
MaoriNa hoki ana ano nga akonga ki to raua kainga.
NorwegianDisiplene gikk da hjem igjen.
PortugueseTornaram, pois, os discípulos para casa.   
RumanianApoi ucenicii s`au kntors acasq.
ShuarNuyá mai ni jeen waketkiarmiayi.
SpanishEntonces los discípulos volvieron a los suyos.
SwahiliBasi, hao wanafunzi wakarudi nyumbani.
SwedishOch lärjungarna gingo så hem till sitt igen.
UmaOti toe, nculii' -ramo ana'guru to rodua toera hilou hi tomi-ra.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Home

Derivations

Words beginning with "home": homebodies, homebody, homebound, homeboy, homeboys, homebred, homebreds, homebrew, homebrews, homebuilt, homecoming, homecomings, homed, homegirl, homegirls, homegrown, homeland, homelands, homeless, homelessness, homelessnesses, homelier, homeliest, homelike, homeliness, homelinesses, homely, homemade, homemaker, homemakers, homemaking, homemakings, homeobox, homeoboxes, homeomorphic, homeomorphism, homeomorphisms, homeopath, homeopathic, homeopathically, homeopathies, homeopaths, homeopathy, homeostases, homeostasis, homeostatic, homeotherm, homeothermic, homeothermies, homeotherms, homeothermy. (additional references)

Words ending with "home": nonhome, townhome, trichome. (additional references)

Words containing "home": fathomed, morphometric, morphometrically, morphometries, morphometry, outhomer, outhomered, outhomering, outhomers, psychometric, psychometrically, psychometrician, psychometricians, psychometrics, psychometries, psychometry, tachometer, tachometers, townhomes, trichomes, whomever. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Home" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahime, aome, Bhoma, bhome, bhume, Dhlomo, ghom, ghome, Haimbe, hama, Hameh, hamme, haome, heme, hemel, heom, Hhmi, hiem, hima, Himeji, himo, hiom, hmd, hme, hmos, hoam, hoamie, hobe, hobmen, hoce, hoem, hofe, hoge, hogee, Hogmen, hoke, hom, homa, homec, homee, homeg, homel, Homen, homeo, homet, homg, homh, homi, homie, homiem, Homiez, homig, Homm, homme, hommy, homoe, homp, Homs, homu, homy, hona, honeff, honie, honre, Hooe, hormo, hormy, hote, houe, howm, hoye, Hoyek, hoze, htmet, huma, humi, hummm, humo, hyme, jome, komme, oem, Ohime, ohme, ohmy, ohne, ome, phome, thome, whome, yome, yomi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Home"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "home" (pronounced hō"m)
3h ō" mHolm.
2-ō" mnome, ohm, chrome, comb, Combe, dome, foam, loam, roam, Shalom, tome.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Home

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-m-o"

-1 letter: hem, hoe, mho, ohm.

-2 letters: eh, em, he, hm, ho, me, mo, oe, oh, om.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-m-o"
 

+1 letter: chemo, homed, homer, homes, homey, mahoe, mohel.

 

+2 letters: chemos, chrome, cometh, hemoid, homage, hombre, homely, homers, homier, mahoes, megohm, method, mohels, moshed, mosher, moshes, mother, ohmage, phenom, phloem, schmoe, shmoes.

 

+3 letters: apothem, armhole, bioherm, bohemia, chefdom, chomped, chomper, chromed, chromes, echoism, ethmoid, gumshoe, haemoid, hambone, heirdom, hemagog, hemiola, hemlock, heroism, hogmane, homaged, homager, homages, hombres, homeboy, homered, homiest, homines, homosex, hormone, humored, manhole, megohms, menorah, menthol, methods, methoxy, mohelim, mooched, moocher, mooches, moorhen, morphed, moshers, mothers, mothery, mothier, mouched, mouches, mouthed, mouther, mudhole, nonheme, nonhome, ohmages, phenoms, phloems, phoneme, rhizome, schmoes, shmooze, shopmen, showmen, smother, somehow, teraohm, theorem, thermos, whomped.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency
17. Names: Derived from
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Cities
20. Expressions
21. Expressions: Internet
22. Translations: Modern
23. Translations: Ancient
24. Bible Trace
25. Abbreviations
26. Acronyms
27. Derivations
28. Rhymes
29. Anagrams
30. Bibliography


  

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