home
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-.
(UK) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /həʊm/
(US) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /hoʊm/
Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
Rhymes: -əʊm
home (plural homes)
A dwelling.
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 place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
(by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
[…] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
(by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
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.
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:
[…] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]
A focus point.
(board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
(baseball) Home plate.
(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.
(computing) Clipping of home directory.
(one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
((baseball) home plate): home base
home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)
(of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.
The dog homed.
(always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
The missile was able to home in on the target.
home (not comparable)
Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. [from 13th c.]
(now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]
(obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]
(sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]
Antonyms: away, road, visitor
home (not comparable)
To one's home.
To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
To one's place of birth.
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
(Internet) To the home page.
At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
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.
To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
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.
(UK, soccer) into the goal
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.
(nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
(to home): homeward
“home”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
“home”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Mohe, hemo-
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
IPA(key): /ˈome/, [ˈo.me]
Rhymes: -ome
Hyphenation: ho‧me
home m (plural homes)
man
L'home equí ye'l fíu María ― This man here is María's son
person
husband
(person): persona
(husband): esposu, maríu
home del sacu
ho
Inherited from Old Catalan home~hom, from Latin hominem (“human”, noun).
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.mə]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔ.me]
Rhymes: -ɔme
Hyphenation: ho‧me
home m (plural homes or hòmens)
man
husband
Synonyms: cònjuge, espòs, marit
home
A term of address for a man conveying annoyance, impatience, surprise, disagreement, etc.
Home, no sigues bèstia! ― Dude, don't be stupid!
“home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
ho̊me
(Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme.
From homo.
home
humanly; in a human fashion
From Proto-Finnic *homëh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh.
IPA(key): /ˈhomeˣ/, [ˈho̞me̞(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -ome
Syllabification(key): ho‧me
home
mildew, mold
“home”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
hemo
homem (reintegrationist)
From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
IPA(key): /ˈɔme/ [ˈɔ.mɪ]
Rhymes: -ɔme
Hyphenation: ho‧me
home m (plural homes)
human; person
mankind
O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969
man (adult male)
Home casado muller é (proverb) ― The Married man is a woman
male human
Home pequeno fol de veleno (proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom
husband
Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim
Home is a false friend, and does not mean home. The Galician word for home is lar.
homiño (“little man”)
lobishome (“werewolf”)
ricohome (“magnate”)
home
man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance)
-Es o campión do mundo? Contento? -Home!... ― -You're the champion of the world? Are you happy? -Man!... [Of course I'm happy, what kind of question is this?]
ho
persoa
Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “home”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “home”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“home” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“home” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
“home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
From Proto-Finnic *homëh. Cognates include Finnish home and Veps homeh.
(Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
(Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
(Hevaha) IPA(key): /ˈhomeh/, [ˈho̞me̞h]
Rhymes: -ome
Hyphenation: ho‧me
home
mould
Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 67
Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 37
Borrowed from English home.
IPA(key): /ˈom/, (careful style) /ˈowm/
Rhymes: -om, (careful style) -owm
home f (invariable)
(computing) home (initial position of various computing objects)
ohmè
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
home m (plural homes)
man
AEDLL
hóme, hómi
From Portuguese home, denasalized variant of homem.
IPA(key): /ˈɔme/, /ˈɔmi/
home (plural home-home)
man
home-home di hoze ― men nowadays
mulé
https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
home (plural homes)
Alternative form of hom (“home”)
home
Alternative form of whom (“whom”)
home
Alternative form of hem (“them”)
home (plural homes)
Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure; meadow”)
home
Alternative form of hame (“hame (part of a harness)”)
home (third-person singular simple present hometh, present participle homende, homynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle homed)
Alternative form of hummen (“to hum”)
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
home m (plural homes)
man
husband
mulhier
home (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative home/hom)
alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012)
see hom for alternative nominative singular forms
From Vulgar Latin *(h)omne, Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.
IPA(key): /ˈu.mə/
home oblique singular, m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
man (male adult human being)
man (mankind; Homo sapiens)
vassal; manservant
fame (“woman”)
Middle French: hommeFrench: homme, Homme ((Man, genus Homo))Haitian Creole: lòmKaripúna Creole French: uómLouisiana Creole: n'hommeSaint Dominican Creole French: n'hommeHaitian Creole: nonm→⇒ English: en hommeFrench: on, l’on (formal)→ Esperanto: oni→ Ido: onu
Norman: houme (France), haomme (Guernsey), houmme (Jersey)
Picard: onme
Walloon: ome
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme)
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)
home m
Alternative form of ome
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
Alternative form of ome
Denasalization of homem.
Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔmɨ, (Brazil) -õmi
Hyphenation: ho‧me
home m (plural homes)
(nonstandard) Alternative form of homem