Synonyms for home
Another word for home is national, internal or interior. Below are 20 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: homed, homes, homing.
1. adjective: used of your own ground
Antonyms
2. adjective: inside the country
- national synonyms
- internal synonyms
- interior synonyms
- domestic synonyms
3. noun: where you live at a particular time
4. noun: housing that someone is living in
- dwelling synonyms
- dwelling house
- abode synonyms
- habitation
- domicile
5. noun: the country or state or city where you live
6. noun: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- home base synonyms
- plate synonyms
- home plate
7. noun: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- base synonyms
8. noun: place where something began and flourished
9. noun: an environment offering affection and security
10. noun: a social unit living together
- house synonyms
- family synonyms
- household
- menage
11. noun: an institution where people are cared for
- rest home
- nursing home
12. verb: provide with, or send to, a home
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- home from home
- home away from home
- residence synonyms
- housing synonyms
- vacation home
- pit-house
- lodge synonyms
- indian lodge
- dug-out
- lake dwelling
- semi-detached house
- condo
- pile dwelling
- cliff dwelling
- homestead
- living accommodations
- lodging synonyms
- location synonyms
- bag synonyms
- source synonyms
- beginning synonyms
- origin synonyms
- root synonyms
- rootage
- environment synonyms
- unit synonyms
- broken home
- social unit
- nuclear family
- extended family
Home in word games
- Letters
- 4
- Scrabble
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble HOME
- Is HOME a word?
- Words starting with H
Questions people ask
What is another word for home?
You can say national, internal, interior, domestic or place instead of home. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "used of your own ground".
What is the opposite of home?
The opposite of home is away.
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Senses and synonyms from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0); the most common words come first. Browse more on the synonyms and antonyms hub.