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(adverb) 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" |
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(adverb) to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" |
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(adverb) on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" |
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(satellite adjective) inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" |
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Synonyms: interior, internal, national |
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(satellite adjective) relating to or taking place in a home or house or household; "home cooking"; "home furnishings"; "home care for the elderly" |
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(satellite adjective) relating to or being a place of origin or headquarters; "the home office" |
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(adjective) (sport) used of your own ground; "a home game" |
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Antonyms: away |
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(verb) return home accurately from a long distance, as of some birds; "homing pigeons" |
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Related Words: come back, get back, go back, return |
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(verb) provide with, or send to, a home |
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Related Words: house, put up |
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(adjective) relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" |
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(noun) an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" |
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Synonyms: nursing home, rest home |
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Related Words: institution |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: location |
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(noun) where you live; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" |
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Synonyms: place |
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Related Words: abode, residence |
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(noun) place where something began and flourished; "the U.S. is the home of basketball" |
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Related Words: beginning, origin, root, source |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: environment |
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(noun) a physical structure (e.g., a house) that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" |
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Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation |
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Related Words: condo, condominium, fireside, hearth, hermitage, homestead, house, housing, indian lodge, lake dwelling, lodge, lodging, messuage, parsonage, pile dwelling, rectory, row house, semi-detached house, town house, vacation home, vicarage |
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(noun) (baseball) a rubber slab that must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" |
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Synonyms: home plate, plate |
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Related Words: bag, base |
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(noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end |
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Synonyms: base |
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Related Words: location |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: family, house, household, menage |
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Related Words: conjugal family, extended family, foster home, nuclear family, social unit, unit |
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