home
Part of speech: verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
soccer
sports
transport
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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: homes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: homing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: homed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: homed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hyem
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: hyem
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: hyem
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Northumbria
Senses:
gloss: To return to its owner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The dog homed.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: home manufactures
gloss: That strikes home; direct, pointed.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: a home truth
gloss: Personal, intimate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: 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 […].
gloss: Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the home end, home advantage, home supporters
gloss: To one's home.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: go home
come home
carry someone home
I invited them home.
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."
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.
gloss: To one's home.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To one's home.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She drove the nail home
ram a cartridge home
Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]
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.
gloss: To one's home.
pos: adv
tags: Internet
not-comparable
examples: Click here to go home.
gloss: At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
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.
gloss: To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]
Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!
gloss: into the goal
pos: adv
tags: UK
not-comparable
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.
gloss: into the right, proper or stowed position
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: sails sheeted home
Synonyms: homeward
Related words: home and dry
home and hosed
home away from home
home free
homeless
homely
homeowner
homestead
hometown
homey
homy
homing
parental home
Derived words: be home
bring home
come home
drive home
get home
get home bag
go home
going home club
haul home the sheets of a sail
loser back home
out-and-home
return home
take home
till the cows come home
turn home
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