ENGLISH: home - CREOLE: lakay



Overview of noun home



The noun home has 9 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)



1. (430) home, place -- (where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?")

2. (350) dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house -- (housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless")

3. (116) home -- (the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey")

4. (43) home -- (an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home")

5. (38) home, nursing home, rest home -- (an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly")

6. (36) base, home -- (the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end)

7. (7) family, household, house, home, menage -- (a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home")

8. (7) home plate, home base, home, plate -- ((baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home")

9. (3) home -- (place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball")



Overview of verb home



The verb home has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)



1. home -- (provide with, or send to, a home)

2. home -- (return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons")



Overview of adj home



The adj home has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (7) home -- (used of your own ground; "a home game")

2. (4) home -- (relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town")

3. home, interior, internal, national -- (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")



Overview of adv home



The adv home has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (59) home -- (at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home")

2. (2) home -- (on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home")

3. home -- (to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home")

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