home

Meanings

Noun

• A dwelling.
• One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
• The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
• A focus point.
• Short form of home directory

Verb

• To return to its owner.
• To seek or aim for something.

Adjective

• Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
• That strikes home; direct, pointed.
• Personal, intimate.
• Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).

Adverb

• To one's home
• At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
• To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
• into the goal
• into the right, proper or stowed position

Related

Similar words

• tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
• home base
• homeward

Origin

• From Middle English home, hom, hoom, ham, from Old English hām ("village, hamlet, manor, estate, home, dwelling, house, region, country"), from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz ("home, village"), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos ("village, home"), from the root *tḱey-.
• Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
• Cognate with Irish caoimh ("dear"), Lithuanian kaimas ("village"), šeima, Albanian komb ("nation, people"), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь ("seed"), Ancient Greek κώμη ("village"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- ("to lie") (compare Hittite, Ancient Greek κεῖμαι ("to lie down"), Latin civis ("citizen"), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈, Sanskrit शये ("he lies").