Home definition

Home as a noun

1. where you live at a particular time

   "deliver the package to my home"

   Same sense: place

2. housing that someone is living in

   "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

   Same sense: dwelling, dwelling house, abode, habitation, domicile

3. the country or state or city where you live

   "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"

4. (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"

   Same sense: home base, plate, home plate

5. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

   Same sense: base

6. place where something began and flourished

   "the United States is the home of basketball"

7. an environment offering affection and security

   "home is where the heart is"

8. a social unit living together

   "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

   Same sense: house, family, household, menage

9. an institution where people are cared for

   "a home for the elderly"

   Same sense: rest home, nursing home

Home as an adjective

10. used of your own ground

    "a home game"

11. relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are

    "my home town"

12. inside the country

    "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"

    Same sense: national, internal, interior

Home as an adverb

13. at or to or in the direction of one's home or family

    "He stays home on weekends"

14. on or to the point aimed at

    "the arrow struck home"

15. to the fullest extent; to the heart

    "drove the nail home"

Home as a verb

16. provide with, or send to, a home

17. return home accurately from a long distance

Synonyms and antonyms

• place definition
• dwelling
• dwelling house
• abode
• habitation
• domicile
• home base
• plate
• home plate
• base
• house definition
• family definition
• household
• menage
• rest home
• nursing home
• national definition
• internal
• interior

Opposite: away.

All synonyms of home, sense by sense

How to say home

Home has 1 syllable and rhymes with syndrome. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with home

• syndrome
• dome
• chrome
• foam
• genome
• comb
• chromosome
• roam
• tome
• gnome
• monochrome
• ohm

All 29 words that rhyme with home

HOME in word games

Scrabble

9

Words With Friends

9

Anagrams

0

Is HOME a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check HOME in the word checker, or unscramble HOME to see the shorter words in its letters.