home
care home (care homes)
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A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
...a residential care home for the elderly.fu|ner|al home (funeral homes)
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A funeral home is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.home birth (home births)
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If a woman has a home birth, she gives birth to her baby at home rather than in a hospital.home eco|nom|ics
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Home economics is a school subject dealing with how to run a house well and efficiently.home field (home fields)
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A sports team's home field is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams. (AM; in BRIT, use home ground)home ground (home grounds)
1 [N-VAR]
A sports team's home ground is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams. (BRIT; in AM, use home field)
2 [PHRASE] v-link PHR, PHR after v
If you say that someone is on their home ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.
Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.home help (home helps)
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A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking. (mainly BRIT)home own|er (home owners)
also homeowner
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A home owner is a person who owns the house or flat that they live in.home page (home pages)
also homepage
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On the Internet, a person's or organization's home page is the main page of information about them, which often contains links to other pages about them.home rule
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If a country or region has home rule, it has its own independent government and laws.home shop|ping
[N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Home shopping is shopping that people do by ordering goods from their homes, using catalogues, television channels, or computers.
...America's most successful home-shopping channel.home stretch
in BRIT, also use home straight
1 [N-SING] the N
The home stretch or the home straight is the last part of a race.
Holmes matched Boulmerka stride for stride down the home straight to finish second.
2 [N-SING] the N
You can refer to the last part of any activity that lasts for a long time as the home stretch or the home straight, especially if the activity is difficult or boring.
...as his two hours of banter, quips and anecdotes goes into the home straight.home truth (home truths)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Home truths are unpleasant facts that you learn about yourself, usually from someone else. (BRIT)
We held a team meeting and a few home truths were spelled out.♦♦♦ home1 /h'oʊm/ (home homes) NOUN, ADJECTIVE, AND ADVERB USES
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N, also at N
Someone's home is the house or flat where they live.
Last night they stayed at home and watched TV...
...his home in Hampstead.
...the allocation of land for new homes.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
You can use home to refer in a general way to the house, town, or country where someone lives now or where they were born, often to emphasize that they feel they belong in that place.
She gives frequent performances of her work, both at home and abroad...
His father worked away from home for much of Jim's first five years...
Warwick is home to some 550 international students...
3 [ADV] ADV after v, be ADV
Home means to or at the place where you live.
His wife wasn't feeling too well and she wanted to go home...
Hi, Mom, I'm home!...
4 [ADJ] ADJ n
Home means made or done in the place where you live.
...cheap but healthy home cooking...
All you have to do is make a home video.
5 [ADJ] ADJ n
Home means relating to your own country as opposed to foreign countries.
Europe's software companies still have a growing home market.
= domestic
6 [N-COUNT]
A home is a large house or institution where a number of people live and are looked after, instead of living in their own houses or flats. They usually live there because they are too old or ill to look after themselves or for their families to care for them.
...an old people's home.
7 [N-COUNT]
You can refer to a family unit as a home.
She had, at any rate, provided a peaceful and loving home for Harriet...
8 [N-SING] with supp, usu N of n
If you refer to the home of something, you mean the place where it began or where it is most typically found.
This south-west region of France is the home of claret.
9 [N-COUNT] oft N for n
If you find a home for something, you find a place where it can be kept.
The equipment itself is getting smaller, neater and easier to find a home for.
10 [ADV] ADV after v
If you press, drive, or hammer something home, you explain it to people as forcefully as possible.
It is now up to all of us to debate this issue and press home the argument.
11 [N-UNCOUNT] usu at N
When a sports team plays at home, they play a game on their own ground, rather than on the opposing team's ground.
I scored in both games against Barcelona; we drew at home and beat them away.
[ADJ] ADJ n
Home is also an adjective.
All three are Chelsea fans, and attend all home games together.
≠ away
12 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you feel at home, you feel comfortable in the place or situation that you are in.
He spoke very good English and appeared pleased to see us, and we soon felt quite at home...
13 [PHRASE] V inflects, usu PHR to n
To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
Their sobering conversation brought home to everyone present the serious and worthwhile work the Red Cross does.
14 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
The prime minister and the moderates are not yet home and dry.
15 [PHRASE] V inflects
If a situation or what someone says hits home or strikes home, people accept that it is real or true, even though it may be painful for them to realize.
Did the reality of war finally hit home?...
16 [PHRASE] usu v-link PHR
You can say a home from home in British English or a home away from home in American English to refer to a place in which you are as comfortable as in your own home.
Many cottages are a home from home, offering microwaves, dishwashers, tvs and videos.
17 [CONVENTION]
If you say to a guest `Make yourself at home', you are making them feel welcome and inviting them to behave in an informal, relaxed way.
18 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you say that something is nothing to write home about, you mean that it is not very interesting or exciting. (INFORMAL)
So a dreary Monday afternoon in Walthamstow is nothing to write home about, right?
19 [PHRASE] V inflects
If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target. (WRITTEN)
Only two torpedoes struck home.home2 /h'oʊm/ (home homes homing homed) PHRASAL VERB USES
== home in
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P on n
If you home in on one particular aspect of something, you give all your attention to it.
The critics immediately homed in on the group's newly-elected members.
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P on n
If something such as a missile homes in on something else, it is aimed at that thing and moves towards it.
Two rockets homed in on it from behind without a sound...
see also homingmo|bile home (mobile homes)
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A mobile home is a large caravan that people live in and that usually remains in the same place, but which can be pulled to another place using a car or van.mo|tor home (motor homes)
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A motor home is a large vehicle containing beds and equipment for cooking and washing. Motor homes can be used for holidays or very long journeys.nurs|ing home (nursing homes)
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A nursing home is a private hospital, especially one for old people.
He died in a nursing home at the age of 87.old peo|ple's home (old people's homes)
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An old people's home is a place where old people live and are cared for when they are too old to look after themselves. (mainly BRIT)rest home (rest homes)
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A rest home is the same as an old people's home.re|tire|ment home (retirement homes)
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A retirement home is a place where old people live and are cared for when they are too old to look after themselves.
= rest home, old people's homestart|er home (starter homes)
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A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.state|ly home (stately homes)
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A stately home is a very large old house, especially one that people can pay to visit. (mainly BRIT)
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A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
...a residential care home for the elderly.fu|ner|al home (funeral homes)
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A funeral home is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.home birth (home births)
[N-VAR]
If a woman has a home birth, she gives birth to her baby at home rather than in a hospital.home eco|nom|ics
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Home economics is a school subject dealing with how to run a house well and efficiently.home field (home fields)
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A sports team's home field is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams. (AM; in BRIT, use home ground)home ground (home grounds)
1 [N-VAR]
A sports team's home ground is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams. (BRIT; in AM, use home field)
2 [PHRASE] v-link PHR, PHR after v
If you say that someone is on their home ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.
Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.home help (home helps)
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A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking. (mainly BRIT)home own|er (home owners)
also homeowner
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A home owner is a person who owns the house or flat that they live in.home page (home pages)
also homepage
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On the Internet, a person's or organization's home page is the main page of information about them, which often contains links to other pages about them.home rule
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If a country or region has home rule, it has its own independent government and laws.home shop|ping
[N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Home shopping is shopping that people do by ordering goods from their homes, using catalogues, television channels, or computers.
...America's most successful home-shopping channel.home stretch
in BRIT, also use home straight
1 [N-SING] the N
The home stretch or the home straight is the last part of a race.
Holmes matched Boulmerka stride for stride down the home straight to finish second.
2 [N-SING] the N
You can refer to the last part of any activity that lasts for a long time as the home stretch or the home straight, especially if the activity is difficult or boring.
...as his two hours of banter, quips and anecdotes goes into the home straight.home truth (home truths)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Home truths are unpleasant facts that you learn about yourself, usually from someone else. (BRIT)
We held a team meeting and a few home truths were spelled out.♦♦♦ home1 /h'oʊm/ (home homes) NOUN, ADJECTIVE, AND ADVERB USES
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N, also at N
Someone's home is the house or flat where they live.
Last night they stayed at home and watched TV...
...his home in Hampstead.
...the allocation of land for new homes.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
You can use home to refer in a general way to the house, town, or country where someone lives now or where they were born, often to emphasize that they feel they belong in that place.
She gives frequent performances of her work, both at home and abroad...
His father worked away from home for much of Jim's first five years...
Warwick is home to some 550 international students...
3 [ADV] ADV after v, be ADV
Home means to or at the place where you live.
His wife wasn't feeling too well and she wanted to go home...
Hi, Mom, I'm home!...
4 [ADJ] ADJ n
Home means made or done in the place where you live.
...cheap but healthy home cooking...
All you have to do is make a home video.
5 [ADJ] ADJ n
Home means relating to your own country as opposed to foreign countries.
Europe's software companies still have a growing home market.
= domestic
6 [N-COUNT]
A home is a large house or institution where a number of people live and are looked after, instead of living in their own houses or flats. They usually live there because they are too old or ill to look after themselves or for their families to care for them.
...an old people's home.
7 [N-COUNT]
You can refer to a family unit as a home.
She had, at any rate, provided a peaceful and loving home for Harriet...
8 [N-SING] with supp, usu N of n
If you refer to the home of something, you mean the place where it began or where it is most typically found.
This south-west region of France is the home of claret.
9 [N-COUNT] oft N for n
If you find a home for something, you find a place where it can be kept.
The equipment itself is getting smaller, neater and easier to find a home for.
10 [ADV] ADV after v
If you press, drive, or hammer something home, you explain it to people as forcefully as possible.
It is now up to all of us to debate this issue and press home the argument.
11 [N-UNCOUNT] usu at N
When a sports team plays at home, they play a game on their own ground, rather than on the opposing team's ground.
I scored in both games against Barcelona; we drew at home and beat them away.
[ADJ] ADJ n
Home is also an adjective.
All three are Chelsea fans, and attend all home games together.
≠ away
12 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you feel at home, you feel comfortable in the place or situation that you are in.
He spoke very good English and appeared pleased to see us, and we soon felt quite at home...
13 [PHRASE] V inflects, usu PHR to n
To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
Their sobering conversation brought home to everyone present the serious and worthwhile work the Red Cross does.
14 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
The prime minister and the moderates are not yet home and dry.
15 [PHRASE] V inflects
If a situation or what someone says hits home or strikes home, people accept that it is real or true, even though it may be painful for them to realize.
Did the reality of war finally hit home?...
16 [PHRASE] usu v-link PHR
You can say a home from home in British English or a home away from home in American English to refer to a place in which you are as comfortable as in your own home.
Many cottages are a home from home, offering microwaves, dishwashers, tvs and videos.
17 [CONVENTION]
If you say to a guest `Make yourself at home', you are making them feel welcome and inviting them to behave in an informal, relaxed way.
18 [PHRASE] v-link PHR
If you say that something is nothing to write home about, you mean that it is not very interesting or exciting. (INFORMAL)
So a dreary Monday afternoon in Walthamstow is nothing to write home about, right?
19 [PHRASE] V inflects
If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target. (WRITTEN)
Only two torpedoes struck home.home2 /h'oʊm/ (home homes homing homed) PHRASAL VERB USES
== home in
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P on n
If you home in on one particular aspect of something, you give all your attention to it.
The critics immediately homed in on the group's newly-elected members.
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P on n
If something such as a missile homes in on something else, it is aimed at that thing and moves towards it.
Two rockets homed in on it from behind without a sound...
see also homingmo|bile home (mobile homes)
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A mobile home is a large caravan that people live in and that usually remains in the same place, but which can be pulled to another place using a car or van.mo|tor home (motor homes)
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A motor home is a large vehicle containing beds and equipment for cooking and washing. Motor homes can be used for holidays or very long journeys.nurs|ing home (nursing homes)
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A nursing home is a private hospital, especially one for old people.
He died in a nursing home at the age of 87.old peo|ple's home (old people's homes)
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An old people's home is a place where old people live and are cared for when they are too old to look after themselves. (mainly BRIT)rest home (rest homes)
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A rest home is the same as an old people's home.re|tire|ment home (retirement homes)
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A retirement home is a place where old people live and are cared for when they are too old to look after themselves.
= rest home, old people's homestart|er home (starter homes)
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A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.state|ly home (stately homes)
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A stately home is a very large old house, especially one that people can pay to visit. (mainly BRIT)