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home¹

  • /həʊm/ UK
  • /hoʊm/ US
  • [hoːm] Canada
  • /hom/ Scotland

Sounds like Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme · Rhymes with -əʊm

Where it comes from

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

noun homes · hyem

  1. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family. And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.
  2. The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; a childhood or parental home; the home of one’s parents or guardian. The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
  3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…]
  4. A house that has been made homelike, to suit the comfort of those who live there. It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
  5. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. a home for outcasts
  6. broadly The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
  7. broadly Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc. The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".
  8. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.
  9. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. the home of the pine
  10. The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
  11. Home plate.
  12. The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
  13. Internet The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
  14. informal The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
  15. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of home directory.home directory

verb homes · homing · homed · hyem

  1. intransitive To return to its owner. The dog homed.

adjective hyem

  1. not comparable Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. home manufactures
  2. archaic, not comparable That strikes home; direct, pointed. a home truth
  3. not comparable, obsolete Personal, intimate. I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].
  4. not comparable Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). the home end, home advantage, home supporters

adverb hyem

  1. not comparable To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location. go home
  2. not comparable To one's place of birth.
  3. not comparable To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length. She drove the nail home
  4. Internet, not comparable To the home page. Click here to go home.
  5. not comparable At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home. 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.
  6. not comparable To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly. 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral, I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
  7. UK, not comparable into the goal 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February, Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
  8. not comparable into the right, proper or stowed position sails sheeted home

Similar: homeward

Home²

Sounds like home · Rhymes with -əʊm

Where it comes from

From home.

noun

  1. uncountable A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or in a web browser to the top of the web page.

Home³

  • /ˈhjuːm/

Sounds like Hume · Rhymes with -uːm

proper noun

  1. A habitational surname from Old English.
  2. An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Marshall County, Kansas.
  3. An unincorporated community in Rayne Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
  4. A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
  5. An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia.

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