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A dwelling.

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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.

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The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.

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the home of the pine

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A focus point.

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(of animals) To return to its owner.

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The dog homed.

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(always with "in on") To seek or aim for something.

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The missile was able to home in on the target.

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Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

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(except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed.

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Personal, intimate.

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Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).

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the home end, home advantage, home supporters

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To one's home

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At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home

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Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.

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To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.

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Into the goal

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Into the right, proper or stowed position

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sails sheeted home

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A directory that contains a user's files.

Daddy went home to sleep.

Now go home and get some rest.

His home was in the country not far from a great forest.

Alex had provided the money to remodel the home, but insisted that it stay in her name only.

He loved the animals, his home and the clinic.

Alpatych was not at home, he had gone to the police.

In spite of the continual struggle for custody, he had felt more welcome at the Medena home than he had with his step-father's family.

I should like to be at home on Christmas day.

Petya was not at home, he had gone to visit a friend with whom he meant to obtain a transfer from the militia to the active army.

Of course, if you prefer, we can wait until you come home from work and make it a fun family event.

I think of my beautiful home every day.

He was glad to go back to England to see his home and his friends once more.

At home, presents were under the tree, waiting for their return.

Jonathan would be home soon so she started supper.

When Alex came home Destiny crawled into his lap.

I will stay at home and do as you wish.

You go on home with Jonathan.

They would have some time to enjoy a late Christmas at home when they returned.

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.

When he reached home it was already getting dark.

This was one of their first lessons at home and at school.

We don't expect to get him home alive!

At last James Hogg said, "It's of no use; all we can do is to go home and tell the master that we have lost his whole flock."

Thoughts of home grew stronger the nearer he approached it--far stronger, as though this feeling of his was subject to the law by which the force of attraction is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.

She was faintly aware when they reached home and Alex carried her to their bed.

The conversation he hears in his home stimulates his mind and suggests topics and calls forth the spontaneous expression of his own thoughts.

Some of them thought that "Home" was a good subject.

Home, I told you!

Home was any place they were together.

He's at home with Jonathan and he can't come in because Destiny might catch what he has.

And that fact is driven home by its generally low price in most locations.

Among the places I visited were West Point, Tarrytown, the home of Washington Irving, where I walked through "Sleepy Hollow."

The driver took them to a Spanish design home a few miles from the hacienda.

If you don't get some sleep when you go home, you won't be able to relieve me tonight.

They should be home any minute.

I'm not going home until you talk to me.

In other words, the average person will make more money, pay a higher percentage as taxes, but still bring home vastly more than before.

I'm going back home.

When a young man I ran away from home and joined a circus.

When Benjamin's father came home, his mother showed him the picture.

The schoolhouse was two or three miles from home, but he did not mind the long walk through the woods and over the hills.

As Tamerlane looked, he saw that there was a hole in the tree only a little way above, and that this was the home of the ant.

The French have destroyed my home and are on their way to destroy Moscow, they have outraged and are outraging me every moment.

The head of the family, Count Ilya Rostov, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty orders at home about the preparations for their departure.

I suppose no place is better than home on Christmas.

It didn't take long for him to get home, and when he came in from the garage, he went directly to his gun cabinet and took out a rifle.

It will seem like being at home again, for I lived in that room for many, many years.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction--a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.

In the first place, he didn't consider this home.