village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.kshema abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. &radic20,
220.]
1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his
family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
The disciples went away again to their own home.
John xx. 10.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
Dryden.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home.
Payne. 2. One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or
dwelt. "Our old home [England]." Hawthorne.
3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
He entered in his house — his home no more,
For without hearts there is no home.
Byron. 4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as,
the home of the pine.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
Tennyson.
Flandria, by plenty made the home of war.
Prior. 5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the
grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Eccl. xii. 5. 6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.
At home.(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and
at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. — Home department, the department of executive administration,
by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to
be conversant or familiar with it. — To feel at home, to be at one's ease. — To make one's self at
home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.
Syn. — Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.
Home
(Home) a.
1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Home base (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making
a run. — Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.
— Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.] — Home rule, rule or government
of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing
power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established
by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of
Parliament. — Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule. — Home run (Baseball), a
complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base. — Home stretch
