American Dictionary
Definition home in American English
home
adverb
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
adverb
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
/hoʊm/
Example
How was the journey home?
Example
What time are you coming home?
Example
I went home to France.
Synonyms and related words
3
to cause someone to fully understand something
Example
The implications of this danger came home to me when I read the newspaper.

Related Words
Words related to home:
a broken home (phrase)
away (adverb)
away (adjective)
at home (phrase)
bring home a message (phrase)
bring home the bacon (phrase)
care home (noun)
charity begins at home (phrase)
chickens come home to roost (phrase)
close to home (phrase)
don’t try this at home (phrase)
down-home (adjective)
eat someone out of house and home (phrase)
funeral home (noun)
group home (noun)
something home (phrase)
hearth and home (phrase)
home (phrase)
home (noun)
home (adverb)
home (verb)
home alone (adjective)
home and hosed (phrase)
home away from home (phrase)
home banking (noun)
home base (noun)
home brew (noun)
home cinema (noun)
Home Counties (adjective)
home economics (noun)
home free (phrase)
home fries (noun)
home ground (noun)
home improvement (noun)
home language (noun)
home loan (noun)
home loan modification (noun)
home movie (noun)
home office (noun)
home page (noun)
home plate (noun)
home room (noun)
home rule (noun)
home run (noun)
home schooling (noun)
Home Secretary (noun)
home shopping (noun)
home sweet home (phrase)
home theater (noun)
home truths (noun)
home unit (noun)
home visit (noun)
home-court advantage (noun)
home-field advantage (noun)
home-grown (adjective)
home-grown (noun)
home-made (adjective)
hometown (noun)
iceberg home (noun)
make yourself at home (phrase)
manufactured home (noun)
mobile home (noun)
motor home (noun)
naked home (noun)
to write home about (phrase)
nursing home (noun)
old people’s home (noun)
press something home (phrase)
ram home (phrase)
rest home (noun)
retirement home (noun)
romp (phrase)
scramble home (phrase)
scrape home (phrase)
second home (noun)
slam something home (phrase)
someone’s chickens come home to roost (phrase)
starter home (noun)
stately home (noun)
stay-at-home (adjective)
stay-at-home (phrase)
take something home (phrase)
take-home pay (noun)
the home front (noun)
the Home Office ()
the home stretch (noun)
the lights are on but no one’s home (phrase)
the cows come home (phrase)