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English

Etymology

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /həʊm/
  • (US) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /hoʊm/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): [hoːm]
  • Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
  • Rhymes: -əʊm

Noun

home (plural homes)

  1. A dwelling.
    1. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
    2. The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
    3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
    4. A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
    5. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
      Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
    6. (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
      • 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
        […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
    7. (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
  2. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
    • 1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home:
      I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
  3. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
    • 1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets:
      […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]
  4. A focus point.
    1. (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
    2. (baseball) Home plate.
    3. (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
    4. (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
    5. (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
  5. (computing) Clipping of home directory.

Synonyms

  • (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
  • ((baseball) home plate): home base

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)

  1. (of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

home (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. [from 13th c.]
  2. (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]
  3. (obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]
  4. (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]
    Antonyms: away, road, visitor

Derived terms

Adverb

home (not comparable)

  1. To one's home.
    1. To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
    2. To one's place of birth.
    3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
    4. (Internet) To the home page.
  2. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
    • 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.
  3. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
    • 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.
  4. (UK, soccer) into the goal
    • 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.
  5. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position

Usage notes

  • home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.

Synonyms

  • (to home): homeward

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

  • “home”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “home”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

  • home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Mohe, hemo-

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈome/ [ˈo.me]
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Syllabification: ho‧me

Noun

home m (plural homes)

  1. man
    L'home equí ye'l fíu María ― This man here is María's son
  2. person
  3. husband

Synonyms

  • (person): persona
  • (husband): esposu, maríu

Derived terms

  • home del sacu
  • ho

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan home~hom, from Latin hominem (“human”, noun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔ.me]
  • Rhymes: -ɔme
  • Hyphenation: ho‧me

Noun

home m (plural homes or hòmens)

  1. man
  2. husband
    Synonyms: cònjuge, espòs, marit

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Interjection

home

  1. A term of address for a man conveying annoyance, impatience, surprise, disagreement, etc.
    Home, no sigues bèstia! ― Dude, don't be stupid!

Further reading

  • “home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
  • “home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Numeral

ho̊me

  1. (Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme.

Esperanto

Etymology

From homo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhome/
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Hyphenation: ho‧me

Adverb

home

  1. humanly; in a human fashion

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *homëh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhomeˣ/, [ˈho̞me̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Hyphenation(key): ho‧me

Noun

home

  1. mildew, mold

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “home”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

  • hemo

Galician

Alternative forms

  • homem (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔme/ [ˈɔ.mɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔme
  • Hyphenation: ho‧me

Noun

home m (plural homes)

  1. human; person
  2. mankind
    O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969
  3. man (adult male)
    Home casado muller é (proverb) ― The Married man is a woman
  4. male human
    Home pequeno fol de veleno (proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom
  5. husband
    Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim

Usage notes

  • Home is a false friend, and does not mean home. The Galician word for home is lar.

Derived terms

  • homiño (“little man”)
  • lobishome (“werewolf”)
  • ricohome (“magnate”)

Interjection

home

  1. man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance)
    -Es o campión do mundo? Contento? -Home!... ― -You're the champion of the world? Are you happy? -Man!... [Of course I'm happy, what kind of question is this?]

Derived terms

  • ho

See also

  • persoa

References

  • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “home”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “home”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “home”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “home”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “home”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
  • “home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *homëh. Cognates include Finnish home and Veps homeh.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
  • (Hevaha) IPA(key): /ˈhomeh/, [ˈho̞me̞h]
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Hyphenation: ho‧me

Noun

home

  1. mould

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 67
  • Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 37

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English home.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈom/, (careful style) /ˈowm/
  • Rhymes: -om, (careful style) -owm

Noun

home f (invariable)

  1. (computing) home (initial position of various computing objects)

References

Anagrams

  • ohmè

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

Noun

home m (plural homes)

  1. man

Further reading

  • AEDLL

Macanese

Alternative forms

  • hóme, hómi

Etymology

From Portuguese home, denasalized variant of homem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔme/, /ˈɔmi/

Noun

home (plural home-home)

  1. man
    home-home di hoze ― men nowadays

See also

  • mulé

References

  • https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

home (plural homes)

  1. Alternative form of hom (“home”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

home

  1. Alternative form of whom (“whom”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

home

  1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Etymology 4

Noun

home (plural homes)

  1. Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure; meadow”)

Etymology 5

Noun

home

  1. Alternative form of hame (“hame (part of a harness)”)

Etymology 6

Verb

home (third-person singular simple present hometh, present participle homende, homynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle homed)

  1. Alternative form of hummen (“to hum”)

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

Noun

home m (plural homes)

  1. man
  2. husband

Antonyms

  • mulhier

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

home (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative home/hom)

  1. alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012)

Old French

Alternative forms

see hom for alternative nominative singular forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *(h)omne, Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈu.mə/

Noun

home oblique singular, m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)

  1. man (male adult human being)
  2. man (mankind; Homo sapiens)
  3. vassal; manservant

Coordinate terms

  • fame (“woman”)

Descendants

  • Middle French: homme
    • French: homme, Homme (Man, genus Homo)
      • Haitian Creole: lòm
      • Karipúna Creole French: uóm
      • Louisiana Creole: n'homme
      • Saint Dominican Creole French: n'homme
        • Haitian Creole: nonm
      • →⇒ English: en homme
    • French: on, l’on (formal)
      • → Esperanto: oni
        • → Ido: onu
  • Norman: houme (France), haomme (Guernsey), houmme (Jersey)
  • Picard: onme
  • Walloon: ome

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
  • home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

home m (plural homes)

  1. Alternative form of ome

Old Occitan

Noun

home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)

  1. Alternative form of ome

Portuguese

Etymology

Denasalization of homem.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔmɨ, (Brazil) -õmi
  • Hyphenation: ho‧me

Noun

home m (plural homes)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of homem

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