home (original) (raw)
home noun (BASEBALL)
Grammar
Idioms
be home Don't worry, I'll be home soon.
take someone/something home Josh was tired, so we took him home.
bring someone/something home I'll bring everyone home after the party.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Idioms
home adjective [before noun] (RELATING TO HOME)
done at home, or intended to be used at home:
home adjective [before noun] (COUNTRY)
home adjective [before noun] (SPORTS)
(Definition of home from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
home | American Dictionary
home noun [C/U] (HOUSE)
[ U ] Phone me at home after four o’clock.
A home also refers to the family that lives together there:
Note:
- "House" is the more usual word for a building that one family lives in. The word "home" also refers to the life that goes on in that building.
home noun [C/U] (ORIGIN)
at home
Go into the living room and make yourself at home.
Idiom
home adjective [not gradable] (IN HOUSE)
home adverb [not gradable] (TOWARD HOUSE)
(Definition of home from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of home
home
Soldiers on leave and veterans returning home undoubtedly passed on their knowledge and experiences to the rest of the population.
For the most part, the returning soldiers were welcomed home warmly.
A group of 27 older adults in inpatient rehabilitation were interviewed during the programme and after returning home.
It is difficult to find a single refugee who thinks that they will be returning home any time in the near future.
The government has been reducing _home_-help services and experimenting with privatisation.
The data were collected at home parties, lunchtime breaks, and other private venues.
The mediastinal drain is removed on the morning after surgery and the patient is discharged home on the third day.
Other studies indicate that the quality of home and work roles intersect in important ways to predict well-being.
These limiting factors do not emerge in the accompanying scenario, which presents an unhurried and relatively straightforward assessment of a man living at home.
Large private providers may therefore deliver relatively high quality care, but this tends to be standardised across all their homes.
The philosophy of these homes is characterized by a very strong emphasis on training the staff.
Older infants may be more likely to have moved around to different foster homes and thus to have suffered more disruptions than younger infants.
As mentioned above, interrater reliability was checked during 20 home visits with two observers.
Sensitivity in the caregiver-infant interaction was assessed by behavior observations within the scope of home visits.
She visits their home and, after an hour or so of closely questioning them, is pretty sure her suspicions are accurate.
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Collocations with home
These are words often used in combination with home.
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They drive up to a huge abandoned home, break in, and quickly make themselves at home.
From
Wikipedia
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Note that age at testing was the sum of age at adoption and time in the adoptive home.
Moreover, unlike sons, married daughters (even if facing marital harassment) have no residence rights in the ancestral home.
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