Dictionary entry details
• HOME (noun)
Meaning:
Where you live at a particular time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
home; place
Context examples:
deliver the package to my home / he doesn't have a home to go to / your place or mine?
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)
Meaning:
Housing that someone is living in
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
dwelling; dwelling house; abode; domicile; habitation; home
Context examples:
he built a modest dwelling near the pond / they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
Meronyms (parts of "home"):
bath; bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)
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 room (a room used primarily for sleeping)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home"):
cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)
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)
Meaning:
The country or state or city where you live
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context examples:
Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home / his home is New Jersey
Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Meaning:
An environment offering affection and security
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context examples:
home is where the heart is / he grew up in a good Christian home / there's no place like home
Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):
environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)
Meaning:
An institution where people are cared for
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
rest home; nursing home; home
Context example:
a home for the elderly
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)
Meaning:
The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
home; base
Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Meaning:
A social unit living together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
family; household; menage; house; home
Context examples:
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
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"):
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)
foster home (a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency))
foster family (the family of a fosterling)
extended family (a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives)
conjugal family; nuclear family (a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner)
broken home (a family in which the parents have separated or divorced)
Meaning:
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
home base; home plate; plate; home
Context example:
he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):
bag; base (place that runner must touch before scoring)
Domain category:
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)
Meaning:
Place where something began and flourished
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
the United States is the home of basketball
Hypernyms ("home" is a kind of...):
beginning; origin; root; rootage; source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being)
• HOME (adjective)
Meaning:
Used of your own ground
Context example:
a home game
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Antonym:
away (used of an opponent's ground)
Meaning:
Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
my home town
Pertainym:
home (the country or state or city where you live)
Meaning:
Inside the country
Synonyms:
interior; internal; home; national
Context examples:
the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior / the nation's internal politics
Similar:
domestic (of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation)
• HOME (verb)
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
Meaning:
Return home accurately from a long distance
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
homing pigeons
Hypernyms (to "home" is one way to...):
come back; get back; go back; return (come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
• HOME (adverb)
Meaning:
At or to or in the direction of one's home or family
Context examples:
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
Meaning:
On or to the point aimed at
Context example:
the arrow struck home
Meaning:
To the fullest extent; to the heart
Context examples:
drove the nail home / drove his point home / his comments hit home
