from home

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English

Etymology

From Middle English fram home, from hame, from hom.

Prepositional phrase

from home

  1. (idiomatic, dated, chiefly UK) Away from home, not at home; away, out.
    • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 2:
      men are merriest when they are from home
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, page 411:
      the old Gentleman being from Home, or out of the way when my Messenger came, my Letter came directly to my Sons Hand
    • 1847, Anne Brontë, chapter 8, in Agnes Grey, volume 3, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 133:
      I cannot bear the thoughts of a Christmas spent from home
    • 1969, John Fowles, chapter 21, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, London: Panther, published 1971, page 156:
      He had excuses. His family difficulties, his long stay from home.

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