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A1 · Beginner 📏 4 letters 🎲 Scrabble 9 ✅ valid word

Everyday English. Most learners know this.

noun
  1. where you live at a particular time
  2. housing that someone is living in
  3. the country or state or city where you live
  4. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands

💬 Examples

  • "deliver the package to my home"
  • "he doesn't have a home to go to"
  • "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"
  • "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

🔗 Similar words

placedwellingdomicileabodehabitationdwelling_house
verb
  1. provide with, or send to, a home
  2. return home accurately from a long distance

💬 Examples

  • "homing pigeons"
adjective
  1. used of your own ground
  2. relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
  3. inside the country

💬 Examples

  • "a home game"
  • "my home town"
  • "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"
  • "the nation's internal politics"

🔗 Similar words

home(a)interior(a)internalnational
adverb
  1. at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
  2. on or to the point aimed at
  3. to the fullest extent

💬 Examples

  • "He stays home on weekends"
  • "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"
  • "the arrow struck home"
  • "to the heart"
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