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say it: hohm
home is a noun, adjective, adverb and verb meaning "where you live at a particular time". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊm/ — hohm. It carries 17 recorded senses.
where you live at a particular time
“deliver the package to my home”
“he doesn't have a home to go to”
“your place or mine?”
housing that someone is living in
“he built a modest dwelling near the pond”
“they raise money to provide homes for the homeless”
the country or state or city where you live
“Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home”
“his home is New Jersey”
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
“he ruled that the runner failed to touch home”
baseball
place where something began and flourished
“the United States is the home of basketball”
an environment offering affection and security
“home is where the heart is”
“he grew up in a good Christian home”
“there's no place like home”
a social unit living together
“he moved his family to Virginia”
“It was a good Christian household”
“I waited until the whole house was asleep”
“the teacher asked how many people made up his home”
“the family refused to accept his will”
an institution where people are cared for
“a home for the elderly”
relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
“my home town”
at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
“He stays home on weekends”
“after the game the children brought friends home for supper”
“I'll be home tomorrow”
“came riding home in style”
“I hope you will come home for Christmas”
“I'll take her home”
“don't forget to write home”
on or to the point aimed at
“the arrow struck home”
to the fullest extent; to the heart
“drove the nail home”
“drove his point home”
“his comments hit home”
provide with, or send to, a home
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for home come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.