home
A person's usual place of living
The place where you live most of the time.
[someone]'s home
- I can't wait to get home after work.
- They moved to a new home last year.
- Her home is in the countryside.
- Please make yourself at home while I prepare dinner.
- I go home after school.
- My home is near the park.
- We have a small home.
- She likes to be at home.
To or at one's residence
To or at the place you live.
go/come/return home
- I went home after the meeting.
- She came home late last night.
- He is already home from school.
- I go home at 5 p.m.
- She comes home after work.
- We walk home together.
Institution for care or housing
A place where people who need help or cannot live alone stay and are looked after.
- She works in a nursing home for the elderly.
- He grew up in a children's home.
- The city opened a new care home last year.
- My grandmother lives in a nursing home.
- The boy lives in a children's home.
- They visit people in the care home.
Place of origin or belonging
The country or place you come from and feel is yours.
- After years abroad, he returned to his home country.
- She is far from home and misses her family.
- New York has always been my home.
- I live far from my home country.
- He goes back to his hometown every year.
- This city feels like home to me.
Move toward target accurately
To move or aim directly at something.
home in on [something]
- The missile homed in on its target.
- Reporters homed in on the scandal.
- She quickly homed in on the main issue.
- The bird homed in on the food.
- He homed in on the answer.
- They homed in on the goal.
- Base: home
- Plural: home, homes
- Base: home
- 3rd Person Singular: homes
- Present Participle: homing
- Past: homed
bring something home to someone
1Make person realize something important
To help someone understand something clearly, especially how serious it is.
- The accident brought home to me how dangerous driving can be.
- Her speech brought the issue home to the audience.
close to home
1Personally relevant and emotional
If something is close to home, it affects you personally because it is similar to your own life or feelings.
- His comments about poverty hit close to home for many listeners.
- That movie was close to home for her after losing her father.
make yourself at home
1Act comfortably in another's place
To relax and act like you are in your own house when visiting someone else's place.
- Please come in and make yourself at home.
- She told me to make myself at home while she prepared dinner.
hit home
4Affect deeply because it's true/relevant
To make you feel something strongly because it is true about your own life.
- His words hit home when I saw the damage for myself.
- His words about hard work really hit home for me.
- The reality of losing her job hit home last night.
- The news report about climate change hit home when I saw the flooding in my town.
home sweet home
1Feeling happy to be at home
Used when you feel happy and comfortable to be back at your own house.
- After two weeks away, it was finally home sweet home.
- After two weeks abroad, it was nice to say, 'Home sweet home.'
- Home sweet home, she sighed as she sat on her sofa.
- We finally arrived—home sweet home!