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homes

 
Noun home has 9 senses
  1. home, place - where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"
    --1 is a kind of residence, abode
    --1 has particulars: home away from home, home from home
    Derived form: verb home2
  2. dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
    --2 is a kind of housing, lodging, living accommodations
    --2 has parts:
     bathroom, bath; bedroom, sleeping room, chamber, bedchamber; den; dining room, dining-room; dressing room; family room; kitchen; living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlor, parlour
    --2 has particulars:
     cliff dwelling; condominium, condo; fixer-upper; hearth, fireside; hermitage; homestead; house; lake dwelling, pile dwelling; lodge, indian lodge; messuage; semi-detached house; vacation home; yurt
    Derived form: verb home1
  3. home - the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey"
    --3 is a kind of
    location
  4. home - an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home"
    --4 is a kind of
    environment
    Derived form: verb home1
  5. home, nursing home, rest home - an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly"
    --5 is a kind of institution
    Derived form: verb home1
  6. base, home - the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
    --6 is a kind of location
  7. family, household, house, home, menage - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
    --7 is a kind of unit, social unit
    --7 has particulars:
     nuclear family, conjugal family; extended family; foster family; foster home; menage a trois
    Derived form: verb home1
  8. home plate, home base, home, plate - (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
    --8 is a kind of base, bag
  9. home - place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"
    --9 is a kind of
    beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
Verb home has 2 senses
  1. home - provide with, or send to, a home
    --1 is one way to
    house, put up, domiciliate
    Derived forms: noun home4, noun home7, noun home5, noun home2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. home - return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
    --2 is one way to
    return, go back, get back, come back
    Derived form: noun home1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
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