home

And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John xx:[10], folio clj, recto:

Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.

1808, John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden:

Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.

1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!:

If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132:

Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.

The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.

Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.

The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.

He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…]

1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III:

The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home

A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.

a home for outcasts

a home for the blind

a veterans' home

Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.

A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.

[…] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]

1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5

(by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.

The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".

2007 January 10, Leslie Feinberg, “1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism”, in Workers World:

(by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.

Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.

1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:

So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.

1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home

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

the home of the pine

[…] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]

1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets

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.

1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.:

Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.

2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:

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

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

(board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.

(lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.

(Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.

(music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

huis

house or structure in which someone lives

inici

home directory — see also home directory

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with 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”)).


home

The dog homed.

(of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.

en-verb

home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)

homes (present singular third-person)
homing (participle present)
homed (participle past)
homed (past)


home

home manufactures
home comforts

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

a home truth

(now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.

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 […].

1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:

the home end, home advantage, home supporters

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


home

go home

come home

carry someone home

He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.

She drove the nail home

ram a cartridge home

Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.

To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.

Click here to go home.

To one's home.
(Internet) To the home page.

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.

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

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, […]

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:

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

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.

sails sheeted home

(nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position