at home

1. 1.

   on the home team's field

   “they played at home last night”

   sport

2. 2.

   at, to, or toward the place where you reside

   “he worked at home”

1. 1.

   a reception held in your own home

   Broaderreception

Questions about at home

What does at home mean?

at home means "on the home team's field". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is at home a common word?

at home is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.