| ADJECTIVE | all | home | used of your own ground |
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| pert | home | relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are | |
| all | home, interior, internal, national | inside the country | |
| ADVERB | all | home | at or to or in the direction of one's home / home or family |
| all | home | on or to the point aimed at | |
| all | home | to the fullest extent | |
| NOUN | location | home, place | where you live at a particular time |
| artifact | home, dwelling, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house | housing that someone is living in | |
| location | home | the country or state or city where you live | |
| artifact | home, home plate, home base, plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber / rubber slab where the batter stands | |
| location | home, base | the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | |
| location | home | place where something began and flourished | |
| state | home | an environment offering affection and security | |
| group | home, family, household, house, menage | a social unit living together | |
| artifact | home, nursing home, rest home | an institution where people are cared for | |
| VERB | social | home | provide with, or send to, a home / home / home / home |
| motion | home | return home / home accurately from a long distance |
| Sounds | hhow'm | |
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| Rhymes | aerodrome ... tome: 31 rhymes with owm... | |
| Meaning | Used of your own ground. | |
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| Example | "a home game" | |
| Category | sport, athletics | An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition |
| Opposite | away | Used of an opponent's ground |
| Meaning | relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are. | |
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| Example | "my home town" | |
| Nouns | home | the country or state or city where you live |
| Meaning | Inside the country. | |
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| Example | "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior" | |
| Synonyms | interior, internal, national | |
| Broader | domestic | Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation |
| Catalan | nacional | |
| Spanish | nacional | |
| Meaning | Where you live at a particular time. | |
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| Synonym | place | |
| Narrower | home away from home, home from home | A place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home |
| Broader | residence, abode | Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily |
| Catalan | casa | |
| Spanish | casa | |
| Adjectives | homely | having a feeling of home |
| Verbs | home | return home / home accurately from a long distance |
| Meaning | The country or state or city where you live. | |
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| Broader | location | A point or extent in space |
| Catalan | casa, llar | |
| Spanish | casa, hogar | |
| Adjectives | home | relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are |
| Meaning | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber / rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score. | |
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| Example | "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" | |
| Synonyms | home plate, home base, plate | |
| Category | baseball, baseball game | A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players |
| Broader | base, bag | A place that the runner must touch before scoring |
| Meaning | The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end. | |
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| Synonym | base | |
| Broader | location | A point or extent in space |
| Meaning | place where something began and flourished. | |
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| Example | "the United States is the home of basketball" | |
| Broader | beginning, origin, root, rootage, source | The place where something begins, where it springs into being |
| Meaning | An environment offering affection and security. | |
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| Broader | environment | The totality of surrounding conditions |
| Adjectives | homey, homy | having a feeling of home |
| Verbs | home | provide with, or send to, a home / home / home / home |
| Meaning | A social unit living together. | |
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| Example | "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" | |
| Synonyms | family, household, house, menage | |
| Narrower | broken home | A family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
| extended family | A family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives | |
| foster family | The family of a fosterling | |
| foster home | A household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) | |
| menage a trois | household for three | |
| nuclear family, conjugal family | A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner | |
| Broader | unit, social unit | An organization regarded as part of a larger / larger social group |
| Catalan | casa, família | |
| Spanish | casa, familia | |
| Verbs | home | provide with, or send to, a home / home / home / home |
| Meaning | An institution where people are cared for. | |
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| Example | "a home for the elderly" | |
| Synonyms | nursing home, rest home | |
| Broader | institution | An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated |
| Spanish | clínica | |
| Verbs | home | provide with, or send to, a home / home / home / home |
| Meaning | At or to or in the direction of one's home / home or family. | |
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| Meaning | On or to the point aimed at. | |
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| Example | "the arrow struck home" | |
| Meaning | To the fullest extent; to the heart. | |
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| Meaning | Provide with, or send to, a home / home / home / home. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Broader | house, put up, domiciliate | Provide housing for |
| Nouns | home | housing that someone is living in |
| home | an institution where people are cared for | |
| home | a social unit living together | |
| home | an environment offering affection and security | |
| Meaning | Return home / home accurately from a long distance. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Broader | return | Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before |
| Nouns | home | where you live at a particular time |