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home(noun)/həʊm/ /həʊm/- the house or flat that you live in, especially with your family
SEE ALSO at-home
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/at-home_2 - Old people prefer to stay in their own homes.
- His children were upset when he sold the family home.
- While travelling she missed the comforts of home.
- She leaves home at 7 every day.
- He left home (= left his parents and began an independent life) at sixteen.
- The floods forced many people to flee their homes.
- I'll call you from home later.
- Nowadays a lot of people work from home (= do paid work at home).
- stray dogs needing new homes
Extra Examples- We are not far from my home now.
- He didn't leave home until he was 24.
- He used to spend the summer painting at his country home.
- A family of four was rescued early this morning when fire ripped through their terraced home.
- She left home and began an independent life at sixteen.
- It's unusual for young people over 25 to still live in the family home.
- Let's go home—I'm tired.
- The centre provides an adoption programme for pets needing new homes.
- Perhaps we could find a home for the kitten.
- Make sure you insure your home contents for an adequate amount.
- The banner said ‘Welcome home dad!’
- The lock-up garage provides a secure home for your car.
- The people abandoned their homes and headed for the hills.
- Work begins this week on a purpose-built home for the city's homeless.
- a shelter for people with no permanent home
- a temporary home for the paintings
- I would rather stay at home and watch TV.
- More than a million people were forced to flee their homes to escape the fighting.
- a house or flat, etc., when you think of it as property that can be bought and sold
SEE ALSO mobile home
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mobile-home - a holiday/summer home
- A lot of new homes are being built on the edge of town.
- He'd always dreamed of owning his own home.
- Buying a home can be a complicated business.
- The number of homes sold in January fell by 13% on the previous month.
- Private home ownership is increasing faster than ever.
- They applied for a home improvement loan.
Extra Examples- We bought a holiday home in France.
- The storm wrecked the family's caravan home.
- They also have a holiday home in Spain.
- They also have a weekend home in the Catskills.
- They designed and built their own home.
- They found their dream home on the shore of a lake.
- You could lose your home if you don't keep up mortgage payments.
- Over three-quarters of the UK's home owners have a mortgage.
- the town, district, country, etc. that you come from, or where you are living and that you feel you belong to
- I often think about my friends back home.
- Jane left England and made Greece her home.
- Jamaica is home to over two million people.
Extra Examples- She left her native home in Ireland and went to America.
- She made her home in Spain.
- used to refer to a family living together, and the way it behaves
SEE ALSO broken home
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/broken-home - She came from a violent home.
- They wanted to give the boy a secure and loving home.
- He had always wanted a real home with a wife and children.
Extra Examples- He came from an appalling home background.
- More and more children in the school are from single-parent homes.
- Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
- She had never had a stable home life.
- We have to provide a good home for the children.
- These children badly need a stable and secure home life.
- a place where people who cannot care for themselves live and are cared for by others
SEE ALSO care home
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/care-home - a children’s home
- an old people’s home
- a retirement home
- a home for the mentally ill
- She has lived in a home since she was six.
Extra Examples- She had to move to a residential care home when her health deteriorated.
- Nora's parents lost custody, and she was placed in a children's home.
- My grandmother moved into an old people's home two years ago.
- He refused to give up his house and garden and go into a retirement home.
- Eventually she had to give up her house and go into a nursing home.
- They run a retirement home for the elderly.
- a place where pets with no owner are taken care of
- the place where a plant or animal usually lives; the place where somebody/something can be found
- This region is the home of many species of wild flower.
- The tiger's home is in the jungle.
- Beverly Hills is the home of the stars.
- The Rockies are home to bears and mountain lions.
- Arizona is home to the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest.
Extra Examples- The hill is the legendary home of King Arthur.
- These birds are in danger of becoming extinct as their forest home disappears.
- The mudflats offer a winter home to thousands of migrating swans.
- I arranged to meet her in her office, as she seemed more relaxed on her home territory.
- a place where an object is kept
- We haven't found a home for all our books yet.
- the place where something was first discovered, made or invented
- New Orleans, the home of jazz
- Greece, the home of democracy
- Andalusia, the home of flamenco
- in a person’s own house, flat, etc.
- I called round last night, but you weren't at home.
- Oh no, I left my purse at home.
- He lived at home (= with his parents) until he was thirty.
- comfortable and relaxed
- Sit down and make yourself at home.
- Simon feels very at home on a horse.
- in somebody’s own country, not in a foreign country
- The president is not as popular at home as he is abroad.
- if a sports team plays at home, it plays in the town, etc. that it comes from
- Leeds are playing at home this weekend.
- Is the match on Saturday at home or away?
- away from a person’s own house, flat, etc.
- He works away from home during the week.
- I don't want to be away from home for too long.
- Her job means she's away from home for weeks at a time.
- if a sports team plays away from home, it plays in the town, etc. that its opponent comes from
- The side has scored 24 goals away from home this season.
- The team are playing away from home.
- you should help and care for your own family, etc. before you start helping other people
- if a remark or topic of discussion is close to home, it is accurate or connected with you in a way that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed
- Her remarks about me were embarrassingly close to home.
- that involves somebody directly
- The next year tragedy struck much closer to home.
- to eat a lot of somebody else’s food
- How much longer is he staying? He’s eating us out of house and home.
- a place where you feel relaxed and comfortable as if you were in your own home
- The guests are made to feel that the hotel is a home from home.
- The hotel's friendly atmosphere makes it a real home (away) from home.
- a home is where the people you love are
- used to say how pleasant your home is (especially when you really mean that it is not pleasant at all)
- a person’s home is a place where they can be private and safe and do as they like
- (used especially about a couple) to start living in a new place
- They got married and set up home together in Hull.
- the place where you are happiest, especially a country where you feel you belong more than in your own country because you share the ideas and attitudes of the people who live there
- When she moved to Italy, she knew she'd found her true spiritual home.
- The first time he visited New Orleans he knew he had found his spiritual home.
- I had always thought of India as my spiritual home.
- used to emphasize a question about somebody/something
- Who's she when she's at home? (= I don't know her)
Word Origin- Old English hām, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heem and German Heim.
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