# homer
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhəʊmə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈhoʊmɚ/
* Rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).

#### Alternative forms

* chomer

#### Noun

homer (plural homers)
* (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+$^1$⁄$_2$ US bushels.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
** 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.
* (historical units of measure) Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

##### Usage notes

* In English, sometimes confused with the much smaller omer.

##### Synonyms

* cor, kor

##### Meronyms

* (dry measure): cab, kab ($^1$⁄$_{180}$ homer); omer, issaron ($^1$⁄$_{100}$ homer); seah ($^1$⁄$_{30}$ homer); ephah ($^1$⁄$_{10}$ homer); lethek, lethech ($^1$⁄$_2$ homer)
* (liquid measure): See cor

### Etymology 2

From home +‎ -er.

#### Noun

homer (plural homers)
* (US, baseball) A home run.
    The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
** 1983 June 27, Kevin Dupont, “METS GAIN SPLIT; STAUB TIES MARK”, in The New York Times‎:The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final.
* (US, colloquial) Synonym of home run (“sexual intercourse”)
** 2019, M. R. Biggs, Not 4 $ale:Fast forward to Chase's base. Where Chase hit a homer, first at bat. Becca thrived off being sexy, having sex, watching sex.
** 2020, Mari Carr, Wild Night:“So you hit a homer, huh?” she asked, confused by his misery. Colm nodded. “Best sex I've had in a long time. Maybe ever.”
* (US) A homing pigeon.
    Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.
* (US, sports) A person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team.
    Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.
* A homing beacon.
** 1961, RCA Service Company, Digest of Military Electronics, page 75:Two general types of homer systems are in use, active homers and passive homers. Active homers contain a transmitting device which emits energy that is directed towards the target.

##### Derived terms

* Chinese homer
* homer man
* homer pigeon
* inside-the-park homer
* stay-at-homer

##### Translations
#### Verb

homer (third-person singular simple present homers, present participle homering, simple past and past participle homered)
* (US, baseball) To hit a homer; to hit a home run.
    The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.

##### Synonyms

* hit out of the park, jack

##### See also

* single, double, triple

### References

* "H2563: chomer" in James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
* "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

### Anagrams

* Roehm

## Middle English
### Noun

homer
* (West Midlands) Alternative form of hamer

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxo.mer/, [ˈho.mer]

### Noun

homer m
* Alternative form of hamor

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hamer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.