home
where you live at a particular time
How often you will meet it
Rank 204 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 114,708 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.055% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- where you live at a particular time also: place deliver the package to my homehe doesn't have a home to go to
- housing that someone is living in also: dwelling, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house he built a modest dwelling near the pondthey raise money to provide homes for the homeless
- the country or state or city where you live Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at homehis home is New Jersey
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score also: home plate, home base, plate he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end also: base
- place where something began and flourished the United States is the home of basketball
home in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I'll fly, dear mother, like an arrow home.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The boy never knew how he got home.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Therefore, regard Rhodes as your permanent home, and devote your life to the Order.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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Shame on the false Etruscan, Who lingers in his home, 15 When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march to Rome.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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The boy nodded his head sidewise toward his own home, and the girl silently nodded hers up and down in answer.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1