Dictionary Entry
home
home is a 4-letter English word with 29 senses as noun, adjective, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Homelyn. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 29 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
See Homelyn.
- 2noun
One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
- 3noun
One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- 4noun
The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- 5noun
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
- 6noun
A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- 7noun
The home base; he started for home.
- 8adjective
Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
- 9adjective
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
- 10adverb
To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
- 11adverb
Close; closely.
- 12adverb
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
- 13noun
housing that someone is living in
"he built a modest dwelling near the pond"
"they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
Synonyms
- 14noun
an institution where people are cared for
"a home for the elderly"
- 15noun
(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"
Synonyms
- 16noun
a social unit living together
"he moved his family to Virginia"
"It was a good Christian household"
- 17noun
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"
- 18noun
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Synonyms
- 19noun
where you live at a particular time
"deliver the package to my home"
"he doesn't have a home to go to"
Synonyms
- 20noun
place where something began and flourished
"the United States is the home of basketball"
- 21noun
an environment offering affection and security
"home is where the heart is"
"he grew up in a good Christian home"
- 22verb
return home accurately from a long distance
"homing pigeons"
- 23verb
provide with, or send to, a home
- 24adjective
inside the country
"the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"
"the nation's internal politics"
- 25adjective
used of your own ground
"a home game"
- 26adjective
relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
"my home town"
- 27adverb
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"
- 28adverb
to the fullest extent; to the heart
"drove the nail home"
"drove his point home"
- 29adverb
on or to the point aimed at
"the arrow struck home"
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