| Noun | 1. | home - where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"abode, residence - any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences" | |
| 2. | home - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"bathroom, bath - a room (as in a residence) containing a bath or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet cliff dwelling - a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff; "the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States" den - a room that is comfortable and secluded fixer-upper - a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price) fireside, hearth - home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" homestead - dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land house - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" kitchen - a room equipped for preparing meals messuage - (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household vacation home - a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation yurt - a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing | |
| 3. | home - 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. | home - 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"environment - the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom" | |
| 5. | home - an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly"institution - an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | |
| 6. | home - the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | |
| 7. | home - 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"extended family - a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) menage a trois - household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" | |
| 8. | home - (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"baseball, baseball game, ball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empy lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" bag, base - place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" | |
| 9. | home - place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" | |
| Verb | 1. | home - provide with, or send to, a homedomiciliate, house, put up - provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" | |
| 2. | home - return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons" | |
| Adj. | 1. | home - used of your own ground; "a home game"athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition away - used of an opponent's ground; "an away game" | |
| 2. | home - relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" | |
| 3. | home - inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"domestic - of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" | |
| Adv. | 1. | home - 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. | home - on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" | |
| 3. | home - to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" | |