Home \Home\ (h[=o]m; 110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to
   OS. h[=e]m, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr
   abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith.
   k["e]mas, and perh. to Gr. kw`mh village, or to E. hind a
   peasant; cf. Skr. ksh[=e]ma abode, place of rest, security,
   kshi to dwell. [root]20, 220.]
   1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives;
      esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the
      habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
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            The disciples went away again to their own home.
                                                  --John xx. 10.
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            Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden.
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            Home! home! sweet, sweet home!
            There's no place like home.           --Payne.
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   2. One's native land; the place or country in which one
      dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
      "Our old home [England]." --Hawthorne.
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   3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the
      domestic affections.
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            He entered in his house -- his home no more,
            For without hearts there is no home.  --Byron.
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   4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first
      found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat;
      as, the home of the pine.
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            Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.  --Tennyson.
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            Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior.
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   5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for
      outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave;
      the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling
      place of the soul.
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            Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go
            about the streets.                    --Eccl. xii.
                                                  5.
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   6. (Baseball) The home base; as, he started for home.
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   At home.
      (a) At one's own house, or lodgings.
      (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at
          home.
      (c) Prepared to receive callers.

   Home department, the department of executive
      administration, by which the internal affairs of a country
      are managed. [Eng.]

   To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar
      with it.

   To feel at home, to be at one's ease.

   To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as
      much freedom as if at home.

   Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.
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