home range

1. 1.

   the area in which an animal normally ranges

   Synonymshome territory

   Broaderrange

Questions about home range

What does home range mean?

home range means "the area in which an animal normally ranges".

What is another word for home range?

Close synonyms include home territory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is home range a common word?

home range is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.