home definition

1. where you live at a particular time
• examples: deliver the package to my home
• examples: he doesn't have a home to go to
• examples: your place or mine?
2. the country or state or city where you live
• examples: Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home
• examples: his home is New Jersey
3. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
• examples: he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
4. place where something began and flourished
• examples: the United States is the home of basketball
5. an environment offering affection and security
• examples: home is where the heart is
• examples: he grew up in a good Christian home
• examples: there's no place like home
6. an institution where people are cared for
• examples: a home for the elderly
7. provide with, or send to, a home
8. return home accurately from a long distance
• examples: homing pigeons
9. used of your own ground
• examples: a home game
10. relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
• examples: my home town
11. inside the country
• examples: the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
• examples: the nation's internal politics
12. at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
• examples: He stays home on weekends
• examples: after the game the children brought friends home for supper
• examples: I'll be home tomorrow
• examples: came riding home in style
• examples: I hope you will come home for Christmas
• examples: I'll take her home
• examples: don't forget to write home
13. on or to the point aimed at
• examples: the arrow struck home
14. to the fullest extent; to the heart
• examples: drove the nail home
• examples: drove his point home
• examples: his comments hit home