Word: home Part of Speech: noun 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”), 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”)). Pronunciation: /həʊm/, /hoʊm/, [hoːm], /hom/ 1. A dwelling. Example: And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home. Example: Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife. 2. A dwelling. Example: The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated. Example: Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city. 3. A dwelling. Example: He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…] Example: You only live life one time / Thank God I'll never live alone / My heart will always have a home / Living with you 4. A dwelling. Example: It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home 5. A dwelling. Example: a home for outcasts Example: a home for the blind 6. A dwelling. Labels: broadly Example: […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […] 7. A dwelling. Labels: broadly Example: The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home". 8. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. Example: Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home. Example: Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances? 9. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. Example: the home of the pine Example: […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […] 10. A focus point. Example: The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home. 11. A focus point. 12. A focus point. 13. A focus point. Labels: Internet 14. A focus point. Labels: informal 15. Clipping of home directory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping