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Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hōm
ipa: /həʊm/
enpr: hōm
ipa: /hoʊm/
ipa: [hoːm]
homophone: Home
homophone: hom
homophone: holm
homophone: heaume
homophone: holme
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: hyem
Etymology: From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
Senses: examples: text: home manufactures
translation: home comforts
english: home comforts
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glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
examples: text: a home truth
qualifier: except in phrases
glosses: That strikes home; direct, pointed.
examples: text: I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].
ref: 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:
glosses: Personal, intimate.
examples: text: the home end, home advantage, home supporters
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: away
road
visitor
glosses: Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from home (adjective)
word: home base
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word: home brew
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word: Home Counties
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word: home economics
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word: home farm
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word: home front
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word: home ground
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word: Home Guard
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word: home lot
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word: home market
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word: home movie
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word: home page
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word: home plate
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word: home port
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word: home range
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word: home remedy
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word: home rule
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word: home ruler
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word: home run
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word: home signal
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word: home stretch
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word: home theater
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word: home thrust
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word: home truth
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word: home turf
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word: home video
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word: homeworking
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word: home working