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- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun1 where sb lives; where sb/sth comes fromADJECTIVE▪ family, marital (BrE), matrimonial (BrE), parental (BrE)▪
It's unusual for young people over 25 to still live in the family home.
▪ boyhood, childhood▪ adopted▪ permanent, temporary▪a shelter for people with no permanent home
▪a temporary home for the paintings
▪ current, former▪ new, old▪ good, happy, loving, safe, secure (BrE), stable▪These children badly need a stable home life.
▪The garage provides a secure home for your car.
▪ broken▪children from a broken home (= whose parents are no longer together)
▪ single-parent, two-parent▪More and more children in the school are from single-parent homes.
▪ middle-class, working-class, etc.▪ winter▪The mudflats offer a winter home to thousands of migrating swans.
▪ natural, spiritual▪The first time he visited New Orleans he knew he had found his spiritual home.
VERB + HOME▪ be away from, get away from, leave▪He didn't leave home until he was 24.
▪ abandon, flee▪The people abandoned their homes and headed for the hills.
▪ find (sb/sth), give sb/sth▪Perhaps we could find a home for the kitten.
HOME + NOUN▪ address, number▪Try calling me on my home number after six o'clock.
▪ background, conditions, environment, life, situation▪He came from an appalling home background.
▪She had never had a stable home life.
▪ comforts (esp. BrE)▪She desperately missed her home comforts while camping.
▪ appliance▪ cinema (BrE), entertainment, theater (AmE)▪the market for home entertainment systems
▪ movie, video▪We have a home movie of my dad teaching me to swim.
▪ use▪This computer is marketed for home use.
▪ computer▪ user▪a laser printer aimed at the home user
▪ study▪The course is suitable for classroom or home study.
▪ work, worker, working (all esp. BrE)▪He supplements his income with part-time or home work.
▪ office▪ care, nursing, visit▪The doctor was assaulted on a home visit.
▪ remedy, treatment▪I've tried all the home remedies for headaches without success.
▪ leave▪He went missing while on home leave from prison.
▪ consumption▪He claimed he had bought the cigarettes for home consumption.
PREPOSITION▪ at home, away from home▪Her job means she's away from home for weeks at a time.
▪ back home, in your own home▪ home of▪Andalusia, the home of flamenco
PHRASES▪ a home away from home (AmE), a home from home (BrE)▪The hotel's friendly atmosphere makes it a real home (away) from home.
▪ home sweet home (= used to say how pleasant your home is), on the home front (= used to introduce domestic news)▪On the home front, the fuel crisis continues to worsen.
▪ welcome home▪The banner said ‘Welcome home, Dad!’
2 house, flat/apartment, etc.ADJECTIVE▪ beautiful, comfortable, nice▪ luxurious, luxury, magnificent, palatial▪ private▪ new, new-build (BrE)▪ custom (AmE)▪ existing, old▪ affordable, humble, modest▪ dream▪They found their dream home on the shore of a lake.
▪ detached, semi-detached▪ terrace, terraced (both BrE)▪ modern, traditional, Victorian▪ own▪They designed and built their own home.
▪ rental (AmE), rented▪ council (BrE)▪ ranch, tract (both AmE)▪ country, seaside (esp. BrE), suburban, village (esp. BrE)▪He used to spend the summer painting at his country home.
▪ holiday (BrE), second, summer, vacation (AmE), weekend, winter▪They also have a weekend home in the Catskills.
▪ caravan (BrE), mobile (esp. AmE), motor (usually motorhome), trailer▪The storm wrecked the family's motorhome.
▪ ancestral, historic, stately (BrE)▪Priceless antique furniture was destroyed in the fire at the stately home.
VERB + HOME▪ own▪He'd always dreamed of owning his own home.
▪ buy, purchase▪ build▪ decorate, furnish▪ destroyHOME + NOUN▪ buyer, owner▪ ownership▪ builder▪ building, construction▪ sales▪ improvement, maintenance, repairs▪ extension (BrE)▪ loan▪ furnishings▪ contents (BrE)▪Make sure you insure your home contents for an adequate amount.
▪ insurance▪ security▪Fitting a burglar alarm is the most effective way to increase home security.
3 place that provides care for sb/sthADJECTIVE▪ care (esp. BrE), children's, convalescent, foster, nursing, old people's (esp. BrE), residential (BrE), rest, retirement▪ funeral▪ purpose-built (BrE)▪Work begins this week on a purpose-built home for the city's homeless.
VERB + HOME▪ run▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}They run a retirement home for the elderly.
adj.Home is used with these nouns: ↑address, ↑affair, ↑appliance, ↑arena, ↑batsman, ↑birth, ↑buyer, ↑care, ↑city, ↑comfort, ↑computer, ↑confinement, ↑constituency, ↑construction, ↑consumption, ↑cook, ↑cooking, ↑country, ↑county, ↑crowd, ↑decoration, ↑delivery, ↑district, ↑electronics, ↑entertainment, ↑environment, ↑extension, ↑fan, ↑farm, ↑favourite, ↑fixture, ↑game, ↑gardener, ↑ground, ↑gym, ↑heating, ↑improvement, ↑inspection, ↑inspector, ↑insurance, ↑invasion, ↑kitchen, ↑leave, ↑life, ↑loan, ↑magazine, ↑maintenance, ↑market, ↑match, ↑mortgage, ↑movie, ↑number, ↑nursing, ↑owner, ↑ownership, ↑page, ↑phone, ↑port, ↑purchase, ↑recording, ↑refrigerator, ↑remedy, ↑renovation, ↑repair, ↑rule, ↑run, ↑safety, ↑sale, ↑schooling, ↑security, ↑series, ↑shopping, ↑side, ↑site, ↑stadium, ↑studio, ↑team, ↑territory, ↑theatre, ↑town, ↑truth, ↑turf, ↑use, ↑user, ↑venue, ↑video, ↑viewer, ↑village, ↑visit, ↑visitor, ↑water, ↑win{{Roman}}III.{{/Roman}}adv.
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home — 1. As an adverb, home has many idiomatic uses as in come home and go home, see someone home, drive a nail (or point) home, etc. When the meaning is ‘in his or her home’ the British preference is to use at home (He stayed at home / Are they at… … Modern English usage
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