"from home" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Etymology: From Middle English fram home, from hame, from hom. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fram home}} Middle English fram home Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} from home, {{en-PP}} from home
  1. (idiomatic, dated, chiefly UK) Away from home, not at home; away, out. Tags: UK, dated, idiomatic Derived forms: home from home
    Sense id: en-from_home-en-prep_phrase-XeIzdwC~ Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2:",
          "text": "men are merriest when they are from home",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, page 411:",
          "text": "the old Gentleman being from Home, or out of the way when my Messenger came, my Letter came directly to my Sons Hand",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1847, Anne Brontë, chapter 8, in Agnes Grey, volume 3, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 133:",
          "text": "I cannot bear the thoughts of a Christmas spent from home",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, John Fowles, chapter 21, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, London: Panther, published 1971, page 156:",
          "text": "He had excuses. His family difficulties, his long stay from home.",
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        "(idiomatic, dated, chiefly UK) Away from home, not at home; away, out."
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          "text": "I cannot bear the thoughts of a Christmas spent from home",
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