home

The place where you live and usually sleep and keep your things.

• Our home is small.
• They bought a new home near the park.
• Do you work from home?

Similar words: house, residence, dwelling

Common phrases: at home, a new home, leave home, my own home

The place where you grew up, where your parents live, or where you feel you belong.

• I miss my childhood home.
• She visits her parents at home every summer.
• Even after twenty years abroad, he still calls Italy home.

Similar words: homeland, birthplace

Common phrases: my childhood home, back at home, far from home, visit home

The place where something naturally lives, is commonly found, or originally came from.

• The forest is a home for many animals.
• This region is the original home of that plant.
• The island is home to several rare birds.

How to use it: the home of something (This valley is the home of a rare orchid.); a home to/for something (The marsh is a home for many birds.)

Similar words: habitat, birthplace, native area

Common phrases: home of something, home to wildlife, natural home, original home

For an animal to find its way back to its owner or usual living place.

• The pigeon homed safely.
• The lost dog homed to its owner after three days.
• These birds can home over great distances.

How to use it: home to + place/person (The pigeon homed to its owner's loft.)

Similar words: return, find one's way back

Common phrases: home to someone, home back, home successfully

Related to your house or your own country.

• I miss her home cooking.
• The company sells mainly to the home market.
• His busy job leaves little time for home life.

Similar words: domestic, local

Opposites: foreign

Common phrases: home cooking, home life, home market, home industry

Related to the team playing at its own ground or stadium.

• The home team won.
• We have three home games this month.
• The home supporters cheered as the players ran out.

Similar words: host

Opposites: away

Common phrases: home team, home game, home advantage, home supporters

In the place where you live or usually belong.

• I'm home today.
• She stayed home because she was sick.
• Will anyone be home when the parcel arrives?

Similar words: at home

Opposites: away

Common phrases: stay home, be home, home alone, home all day

Deeply or completely, so that something is firmly understood, felt, or established.

• His words hit home.
• The teacher drove the lesson home with a simple example.
• The empty house brought her loss home to her.

How to use it: bring something home to someone (The accident brought the danger home to us.); drive something home (Her story drove the message home.)

Similar words: deeply, fully, forcefully

Common phrases: hit home, drive something home, bring something home, strike home