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noun US /hoʊm/

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

  1. where you live at a particular time also: place deliver the package to my homehe doesn't have a home to go to
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. (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
  5. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end also: base
  6. place where something began and flourished the United States is the home of basketball

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

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