home
part of speech
noun (home, homes); adverb (home); adjective (home: home address, home team); verb (home in on — less common)
meaning for a pupil
1) A home is the place where you live, with your family. tree →
2) A home is a house or flat, a building people live in. tree →
3) As an adverb, home means to or at the place where you live: go home, stay home. tree →
4) An animal's home is where it lives, like a nest or burrow. tree →
5) In games, home is the base you try to reach, and the home team plays at its own ground. tree →
6) A home (care home, old people's home) is a place where people who need care live. tree →
7) (casual) «Home» is clipped in quick talk: «u home?», «home by 6», «heading home»; «bring it home» means finish well. tree →
8) (formal) «Residence», «dwelling», «domicile» and «place of abode» are the stiff official words for home. tree →
9) (euphemism) «Gone home» or «called home» is sometimes said for someone who has died, and «put in a home» for an old person moved into care. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, a place in the story, often a start or end point of a trip; also houses counted (homes built). In everyday life: home address, homework, feeling at home. In safety: know your home address and phone number, stay home when ill; never tell strangers online where your home is. In science, an animal's home is its habitat. In stories, the hero often leaves home and comes home again. In casual texts home is a time and a place: «home in 10». In the exam voice: «the distance between the residence and the school». Phrases: «at home», «go home», «home time», «make yourself at home», «homesick», «home and dry», «home sweet home».
examples
- He walks 2 km from home to school. tree →
- She got home at 4 o'clock. tree →
- The builders finished 8 homes. tree →
- How far is it there and back home? tree →
- I stayed home because I had a cold. tree →
- A burrow is a rabbit's home. tree →
- Learn your home address by heart. tree →
- Make yourself at home! tree →
- omw home, 2 km left then i'm done lol (casual) tree →
- Get home now or you're grounded — I mean it. (rough) tree →
- Grandpa lives in a care home now. tree →
- The distance from the pupil's residence to the school is 2 km; ascertain the total distance travelled on a return journey. (formal exam) tree →
note
Countable noun: a home, homes. No «to» before home: «go home», not «go to home»; «at home» needs at. A place only; the clue is in distances and times. Trap: a trip «there and back home» is twice the one-way distance. Home (where you live) is not always a house: a flat or a tent can be a home. «Residence», «dwelling», «domicile» (formal) all mean home. «Homesick» means sad because you miss home. Euphemism trap: «went home» about a sick person can mean they died — read the rest. Safety: keep your home address private online.
In the corpora
- Stories about annoying colleagues told at home are private and should not be repeated outside.
- Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired.
- These things are worrying, but they are almost never anyone's fault at home, and most families get through them.
- Living in a home costs money every single month, even when nobody buys anything new.
- Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «home» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.