"leave home" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-leave home.ogg [Australia] Forms: leaves home [present, singular, third-person], leaving home [participle, present], left home [participle, past], left home [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|leave<,,left> home}} leave home (third-person singular simple present leaves home, present participle leaving home, simple past and past participle left home)
  1. (idiomatic) To stop living with one's parents. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: leave the nest, fly the nest Related terms: stand on one's own two feet, home leave Translations (stop living with one's parents): muuttaa omilleen (Finnish), quitter le nid familial (French), quitter le nid (French), wyprowadzać się [imperfective] (Polish), wyprowadzić się [perfective] (Polish), irse de casa (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-leave_home-en-verb-5-dWA8TX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Polish links with redundant wikilinks

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      "sense": "stop living with one's parents",
      "word": "muuttaa omilleen"
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      "sense": "stop living with one's parents",
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      "sense": "stop living with one's parents",
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      "sense": "stop living with one's parents",
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      "sense": "stop living with one's parents",
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      "sense": "stop living with one's parents",
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