home
Meanings
- A dwelling.
- 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.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- A focus point.
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- To return to its owner.
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
- That strikes home; direct, pointed.
- Personal, intimate.
- Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
- To one's home.
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To one's place of birth.
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- To the home page.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- into the goal
- into the right, proper or stowed position
- A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A number of places in the United States, all apparently meaning home, a place to live:
- An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Marshall County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Rayne Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia.
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Etymology
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).