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(lb) A dwelling.
#One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
#* (William Tyndale), , xx, 10:
#*:And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home .
#*1808 , (John Dryden), (Walter Scott) (editor), The Works of John Dryden :
#*:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
#*1822 , (John Howard Payne), :
#*:Home'! '''home'''! sweet, sweet '''home'''! / There’s no place like '''home''', there’s no place like ' home .
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#*: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.
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#*:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes , burying victims under rubble and sludge.
#The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
#*2004', Jean Harrison, '''''Home :
#*: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.
#The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
#*1837 , (George Gordon Byron), Don Juan :
#*:He enter'd in the house—his home' no more, / For without hearts there is no ' home ;
#A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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#(lb) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
#*1769 , King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, , xii, 5:
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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
*1863', (Nathaniel Hawthorne), '' Our Old '''Home : A Series of English Sketches :
*: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 .
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*: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.
*1980 , (Peter Allen), song, (I Still Call Australia Home) :
*: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 .
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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*1706', (Matthew Prior), ''An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ?ucce?s of Her Maje?ty's Arms, 1706'', as republished in '''1795 , Robert Anderson (editor), ''The Works of the British Poets :
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*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), :
*: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.
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*: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.
(lb) A focus point.
# The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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#(lb) Home plate.
#(lb) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
#(lb) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Shortened form of homeboy .
*2008 , (Breaking Bad)'', ''Cancer Man :
*:Jesse Pinkman: Hey, homes . I'm joking! OK? I'm totally joking!
Synonyms
* tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
* home base
Derived terms
* at home
* at-homeness
* bring home
* broken home
* drive home
* funeral home
* holiday home
* homebuilder
* home computer
* Home Depot
* home-grown
* home help
* home is where you hang your hat
* home is where the heart is
* home-made
* home movie
* homeowner
* home ownership, homeownership
* home plate
* home run
* Home Secretary
* homesickness
* home stretch
* home teach
* home team
* motor home
* nursing home
* parental home
(home)
Verb
( hom)
(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
- The missile was able to home in on the target.
* 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist :
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Derived terms
* home base
* home brew
* home economics
* home farm
* home front
* home lot
* home movie
* home page
* home port
* home plate
* home range
* home rule
* home ruler
* home run
* home stretch
* home theater
* home thrust
* home video
Adverb
( -)
To one’s home or country.
- go home'', ''come home'', ''carry home .
* 1863 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches ,
- 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."
Close; closely.
* 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.
* 1718 , (Robert South), Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ?everal Occasions ,
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ?hewing with what high impudence ?ome among?t us defend sin, ...
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- to drive a nail home'''''; ''to ram a cartridge '''home
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice , Act 5, Scene 1,
- ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : ...
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home .
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
* 2004 , Tottenham 4-4 Leicester], [[w:BBC Sport, 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.
(internet) To the home page.
- Click here to go home .
Usage notes
* is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
Derived terms
* bring home
* come home
* haul home the sheets of a sail
* till the cows come home
* turn home
Related terms
(Terms related to "home")
* homing
* homeless
* homely
* homeowner
* homestead
* homey, homy
* home away from home
* home and dry
* home and hosed
* home free
* parental home
* hometown
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vendor Alternative forms
* vender
Noun
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Synonyms
* merchant
* seller
Related terms
* vend
* vending machine
* vendor bid
See also
* Spanish: vender (to sell)
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