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Language: English
Part of speech: adv
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: go home
text: come home
text: carry someone home
text: He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
ref: 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:
text: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: To one's home.
To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
glosses: To one's home.
To one's place of birth.
examples: text: She drove the nail home
text: ram a cartridge home
text: Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
glosses: To one's home.
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
examples: text: Click here to go home.
glosses: To one's home.
To the home page.
examples: 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.
glosses: At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
examples: text: 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
text: How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
examples: 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: into the goal
examples: text: sails sheeted home
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: into the right, proper or stowed position
Synonyms: sense: to home
word: homeward
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: be home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: bring home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: come home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: drive home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: get home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: get home bag
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: go home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: going home club
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: haul home the sheets of a sail
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: loser back home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: out-and-home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: return home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: take home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: till the cows come home
sense: Terms derived from the adverb home
word: turn home
Related terms: home and dry
home and hosed
home away from home
home free
homeless
homely
homeowner
homestead
hometown
homey
homy
homing
parental home