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HOME

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Housing that someone is living in

Example:

they raise money to provide homes for the homeless

Synonyms:

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)

Meronyms (parts of "home"):

front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)

kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)

family room (a recreation room in a private house)

dressing room (a room in which you can change clothes)

dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)

dinette (a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining)

den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)

bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)

bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):

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)

vacation home (a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation)

semi-detached house (a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side)

messuage ((law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household)

indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)

lake dwelling; pile dwelling (dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages)

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

homestead (dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land)

hermitage (the abode of a hermit)

fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)

fixer-upper (a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price))

condo; condominium (one of the dwelling units in a condominium)

cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An institution where people are cared for

Example:

a home for the elderly

Synonyms:

home; nursing home; rest home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

institution (an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

Example:

he ruled that the runner failed to touch home

Synonyms:

home; home base; home plate; plate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

bag; base (a place that the runner must touch before scoring)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A social unit living together

Example:

the family refused to accept his will

Synonyms:

family; home; house; household; menage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):

broken home (a family in which the parents have separated or divorced)

conjugal family; nuclear family (a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner)

extended family (a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives)

foster family (the family of a fosterling)

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)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The country or state or city where you live

Example:

his home is New Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

base; home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Where you live at a particular time

Example:

your place or mine?

Synonyms:

home; place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

abode; residence (any address at which you dwell more than temporarily)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):

home away from home; home from home (a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home)

Derivation:

home (return home accurately from a long distance)

homely (having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Place where something began and flourished

Example:

the United States is the home of basketball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)

Sense 9

Meaning:

An environment offering affection and security

Example:

there's no place like home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):

environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)

Derivation:

home (provide with, or send to, a home)

homey; homy (having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inside the country

Example:

the nation's internal politics

Synonyms:

home; interior; internal; national

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

domestic (of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of your own ground

Example:

a home game

Classified under:

Adjectives

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Antonym:

away (used of an opponent's ground)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are

Example:

my home town

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

home (the country or state or city where you live)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return home accurately from a long distance

Example:

homing pigeons

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "home" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

home (where you live at a particular time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with, or send to, a home

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "home" is one way to...):

domiciliate; house; put up (provide housing for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

home (housing that someone is living in)

home (an institution where people are cared for)

home (a social unit living together)

home (an environment offering affection and security)

 IV. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or to or in the direction of one's home or family

Example:

don't forget to write home

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

To the fullest extent; to the heart

Example:

his comments hit home

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 3

Meaning:

On or to the point aimed at

Example:

the arrow struck home

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

 Context examples: 

If its homing instinct led it upon the right line, there can be no doubt that somewhere out in the wastes of the Atlantic the last European pterodactyl found its end.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within ten years.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to rest, and with our hearts full of a constant dread of wild bulls.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Tom, my man,” said I, “you're going home.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“You will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home,” replied Mr. Hyde, blowing in the key.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her repentant mother.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was but a glance, and then we were off hot-foot for home.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Thought more of mine own home?” cried Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had come to New York to avoid the Italian police, and he had already planted a branch of this dreadful society in his new home.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Discussion: Places may be work facilities (where relevant acts occur), homes (where people live) or offices (where people work).

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)