Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun home

9 senses of home

Sense 1
home, place -- (where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?")
       => residence, abode -- (any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences")

Sense 2
dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house -- (housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless")
       => housing, lodging, living accommodations -- (structures collectively in which people are housed)

Sense 3
home -- (the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey")
       => location -- (a point or extent in space)

Sense 4
home plate, home base, home, plate -- ((baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home")
       => base, bag -- (a place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag")

Sense 5
base, home -- (the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end)
       => location -- (a point or extent in space)

Sense 6
home -- (place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball")
       => beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root")

Sense 7
home -- (an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home")
       => environment -- (the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room")

Sense 8
family, household, house, home, menage -- (a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home")
       => unit, social unit -- (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit")

Sense 9
home, nursing home, rest home -- (an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly")
       => institution -- (an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb home

2 senses of home

Sense 1
home -- (provide with, or send to, a home)
       => house, put up, domiciliate -- (provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town")

Sense 2
home -- (return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons")
       => return -- (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean")

Antonyms of adj home

2 of 3 senses of home

Sense 1
home (prenominal) (vs. away) -- (used of your own ground; "a home game")

away (vs. home) -- (used of an opponent's ground; "an away game")

Sense 3
home (prenominal), interior (prenominal), internal, national -- (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")

INDIRECT (VIA domestic) -> foreign -- (of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office")

Similarity of adj home

3 senses of home

Sense 1
home (prenominal) (vs. away) -- (used of your own ground; "a home game")

Sense 2
home -- (relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town")

Sense 3
home (prenominal), interior (prenominal), internal, national -- (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")
       => domestic (vs. foreign) -- (of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction")

Synonyms of adv home

3 senses of home

Sense 1
home -- (at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home")

Sense 2
home -- (on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home")

Sense 3
home -- (to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home")

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