homer
part of speech
noun (a homer, homers); verb (US, informal: homer, homers, homered); also a name (Homer)
meaning for a pupil
1) (US, baseball, informal) A home run: a hit that lets the batter run all the way round the bases and score. tree →
2) (a name) Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is said to have composed the «Iliad» and the «Odyssey». tree →
3) (a name) Homer Simpson is the dad in the cartoon «The Simpsons». tree →
4) A homing pigeon. tree →
5) (sport, informal) A referee or decision that seems to favour the home team. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A Hebrew measure of dry goods, about ten ephahs, which is a large heap of grain or similar produce. Here it is not baseball or the Greek poet. Interpretation: Tradition counts it as one of the standard measures of the law, used for offerings and for how much quail the people gathered. In the primary lessons: In history and English lessons, Homer's «Odyssey» tells of the hero Odysseus's long journey home; no one is sure Homer was one real person. In sport talk in the USA and Canada, «hit a homer» means hit a home run. In everyday culture, Homer Simpson says «D'oh!».
examples
- For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. (Prophets ISA.5.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; (Prophets HOS.3.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- and the set portion of oil, the bath of oil, shall be the tithe of the bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; for ten baths are a homer; (Prophets EZK.45.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- She hit a homer in the last inning! tree →
- Homer told the story of the Trojan War. tree →
- The «Odyssey» is an epic poem by Homer. tree →
- Homer Simpson loves doughnuts. tree →
- That ref is a real homer — every call goes to the home team. tree →
- The homer pigeon flew back to its loft. tree →
- Homer knew the stories and made up the ‘Odyssey’ out of half a dozen of them. tree →
note
Capital H for the names. The baseball sense is informal American. Adjective «Homeric» means to do with Homer or very great and heroic.
In the corpora
- For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
- So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «homer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.