home
The place where you live most of the time.
The place where someone usually lives, especially with their family.
To or at the place you live.
To or at the place where one lives.
A place where people who need help or cannot live alone stay and are looked after.
A place where people who need special care live, such as the elderly or children without parents.
The country or place you come from and feel is yours.
The country, town, or place where someone was born or feels they belong.
To move or aim directly at something.
To move or direct attention toward a particular target with great accuracy.
- 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!