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home

noun
/həʊm/UK/hoʊm/US/hoːm/CA/hom//ˈhjuːm/

Etymology

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

  1. inherited from *ḱóymos✻ — “village, home”
  2. inherited from *haimaz✻ — “home, village”
  3. inherited from *haim✻
  4. inherited from hām
  5. inherited from hōm

Definitions

  1. A dwelling.

    • And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.
    • Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
    • Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.

  2. One’s native land

    One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.

    • Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?

  3. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally…

    The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.

    • the home of the pine
    • […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]
    • Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. A focus point.

      • The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.

    2. Clipping of home directory.

    3. To return to its owner.

      • The dog homed.

    4. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country

      Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.

      • home manufactures

    5. That strikes home

      That strikes home; direct, pointed.

      • a home truth

    6. Personal, intimate.

      • I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].

    7. Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).

      • the home end, home advantage, home supporters

    8. To one's home.

      • go home
      • come home
      • carry someone home

    9. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location

      At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.

      • 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.

    10. To a full and intimate degree

      To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.

      • 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral, I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
      • How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]
      • Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!

    11. into the goal

      • 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February, Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.

    12. into the right, proper or stowed position

      • sails sheeted home

    13. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current…

      A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.

    14. A habitational surname from Old English.

    15. A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live

      A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:

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Derived

a house is not a home, a man's home is his castle, America at home, an Englishman's home is his castle, at home, at-home card, at-homeness, away from home, back home, birthhome, boys' home, bring home, bring home the bacon, broken home, cage home, care home, charity begins at home, children's home, Chinese home run, close to home, come home by weeping cross, come home to roost, cottage home, detention home, direct-to-home, dishome, don't try this at home, down home, down-home, dream home, drive home, eat someone out of house and home, eco-home, eventide home, fall home, family home evening, far-from-home, follow-home, forever home, foster home · +323 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at home. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01home02country03institutions04institution05service06assistance07aid08helper

A definitional loop anchored at home. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at home

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA