home1 nounhome2 adverbhome3 adjectivehome4 verb
homehome1 /həʊm $ hoʊm/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
WORD ORIGINhome1
Origin:
Old English ham ‘village, home’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.
- Buying your first home is a very important step.
- Her home, she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.
- I've lived in Madrid for many years, and it feels like home to me now.
- I never wanted to put my mother in a home.
- It took us about ten years to think of Atlanta as home.
- People like to feel secure in their own homes.
- She was born in Italy, but she's made Charleston her home.
- The restaurant isn't far from our home, so it's convenient.
- The tax rate depends on when the home was purchased.
- They grew up in a children's home in Ohio.
- They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.
- To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home.
- You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.
- And owners note a perceptible increase in door-hangers, fliers and other pleas from agents to put their homes up for sale.
- Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue.
- In fact, he finds that he is able to get a great deal of work done at home on these days.
- It is the home of that most Freudian of plants, the coco-de-mer.
- Their homes are mobile in name only.
- They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney.
THESAURUS
the house, apartment, or place where you live: · More and more people are working from home.· It was past midnight by the time I got home.
a building that someone lives in, especially a building intended for one person, couple, or family: · Shall we meet at your house?· Have you seen Dave’s new house – it’s huge!
spoken informal the house, apartment, or room where someone lives: · We went to Sara’s place after the movie.· He’s just bought a fantastic place right by the sea.
formal the house or apartment where someone lives, especially a large or official one: · The prime minister’s official residence is 10 Downing Street.· His wife transferred her main residence to Spain.
British English, vacation home American English a house that someone owns by the sea, in the mountains etc, where they go for their holidays: · They bought a luxury holiday home in Spain.
Longman Language Activatorwhere someone lives the place where you live: · People like to feel secure in their own homes.· Buying your first home is a very important step.family home (=the house where a family has lived for a long time): · To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home.home life (=the things you do at home): · You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.
spoken the place where Jerry, my mother, the Carters etc live: · OK. I'll see you at Helen's at eight o'clock.· We were at the Thompsons' last Saturday for dinner.· You've never been to my sister's, have you?
spoken informal the house, apartment etc where someone lives: · Terry's just bought himself a place over in Newgate, overlooking the harbour.somebody's place: · Why don't you come around to our place for a drink on Saturday?· Your place is too small for a party. Let's have it at mine.
formal someone's home, especially the home of an important person, that is sometimes used for official dinners, meetings etc: · 10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.· We first met at a cocktail party at the residence of the Russian ambassador.
the number of the house or building, and the name of the street, road and town where someone lives: · What's your address and telephone number?change of address (=when you move to a different address): · Notify your credit card company of any change of address.address book (=a list of addresses of your friends, family etc): · I checked my address book for Rick's house number.
to be in your home · I'll be at home tonight if you want to call me.· We're just going to stay at home rather than go away anywhere.· Jim's never home Friday nights. You should know that.stay home · It was raining, so I stayed home.be home alone (=home on your own, used especially about children) · The two-year-old girl had been left home alone.
if someone is in , they are in their home and you can visit them or talk to them on the phone: · "Hello, Mrs Jones. Is Sally in, please?''· We went to see Phil and Tony but there was nobody in.· No, Gerry won't be in until after eight o'clock.
happening or doing something in someone's home · The good thing about my job is that I can often work at home.· Earlier in the century it was normal for women to have their babies at home.· Darren still lives at home with his parents.
happening in or relating to the home: · She likes to keep her domestic life quite separate from her work.· The women had all experienced some form of domestic violence.
words for describing something that is used in people's homes designed to be used in homes: · The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.· Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.
designed to be used in homes, rather than in factories, offices, or other public places: · The gas is used for domestic heating and cooking.· The store sells a wide range of domestic appliances.
to or towards your home: go/come/arrive etc home · He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home.· Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?bring/take something home · You can take the laptop home with you if you like.
to not be in your home especially spoken to not be in your home for a short period: · "Can I speak to Frank?'' "I'm sorry he's out right now.''· While they were out, someone broke in and stole their TV and VCR.
to not be in your home for several days, weeks, or months: · Who's going to look after your cats while you're away?be away from: · Jack worked as a pilot and was often away from home.
to provide someone with a place to live if an organization houses someone, it provides them with a home to live in: · The refugees have been fed, clothed and housed by welfare organizations around the world.
formal to provide someone with a place to live, especially someone who is away from their own home, for example a student: · Once you have been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.· Migrant workers are to be accommodated near the place where they work.
to have no home also have nowhere to live · She was in a strange city, with no job and without anywhere to live.· He's staying at my house because he has nowhere to live right now.
having no home to live in, especially because you are very poor or have been forced to leave your old home: · The possibility that he might become homeless frightened him.· There is a system of shelters for homeless people.· The earthquake left thousands of people homeless.
informal to sleep outdoors in a city because you do not have anywhere to live: · As many as 250,000 children are homeless and on the streets.· He ran away from home and lived rough on the streets until the police helped him get into a hostel.
people who have no home to live in · We distribute food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London.· There aren't enough places in short-stay hostels, so the homeless are reduced to sleeping in cardboard boxes.
American someone who has no home or regular work: · Empty houses attract drug users and transients.· Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.
American informal a person, usually a man, who has no home or regular job and asks people for money on the streets: · A couple of bums were passing a bottle in a doorway.
informal a woman with no home or job who carries all her possessions around with her in a bag: · A bag lady with a shopping cart was picking through the garbage for aluminum cans.
someone, especially a man, who has no home or job , and who often asks people for money to live: · An old tramp was sleeping under Waterloo Bridge, his coat wrapped tight to keep out the cold.
especially written someone who has no home or regular work, and goes from place to place - used especially in legal or official contexts: · Our charity provides shelter, meals, and clothing for vagrants.· The number of vagrants is increasing because of the lack of affordable accommodation for rent in the capital.
the place you come from the town where you live now, where you were born, or where you spent most of your early life: · I haven't been back to my home town since my mother died.· She hated her home town so much she would never admit where she was from.
the place where someone, especially someone famous, was born: · We visited the birthplace of Lenin in Ulyanovsk.· Muslims are expected to make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca, Muhammad's birthplace.
the place where you were born -- used especially in official documents: · Forms usually ask you your name, address, nationality and place of birth.· She hoped that one day she would return to her place of birth.
the place where you usually live or the place that you come from, especially when that is the place where you feel you belong and where you would most like to live: · It took us about ten years to think of Atlanta as home.· Her home, she said, was in Southern China, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.
happening in, or relating to a particular country happening in or relating to all of a particular country, not just part of it: · The national news comes on at 18:30.· Winners of the regional competitions compete in the national finals.
happening in or relating to your own country, not other countries: domestic issue: · The President's speech covered a range of foreign and domestic issues.domestic market (=when a company sells goods in the country where it is based): · Volkswagen produce cars both for the domestic market and for export.domestic flight (=within a country): · Security on domestic flights in the US has been stepped up considerably.
: internal affairs/problems/matters things that concern a particular country - use this especially to say that foreign countries should not become involved in them: · Each country has the right to control its own internal affairs.· Western countries have been accused of interfering in Brazil's internal problems.
events that happen at home happen within your own country and do not involve any other countries, used especially when you are comparing what is happening in your country with what is happening in foreign countries: · Sales of electrical goods have increased, both at home and abroad.· Shocked by the events at home, the president cut short his trip to Europe.
to have nearly finished something especially British also be almost finished/done/through · I'm nearly finished -- I just want to put these files away.· Are you almost done in the shower?· Just give me a couple more minutes. I'm nearly through.
to have almost finished something, especially something that has taken a long time: · The election campaign is now on its last lap.· The regular season is in the home stretch, and the playoffs will soon begin.
British also put the finishing touch/touches on American to finish something by adding the last details, especially in order to make it look nice: · Sue's just putting the finishing touches to her make-up.· Painters are putting the finishing touches on the baseboards and railings.· The team are busy putting the finishing touches to the new design.
to finish something by adding the last parts or details: finish off something: · I came to work early this morning to finish off some urgent work for the boss.finish something off: · I usually partially cook steaks in the microwave and then finish them off on the grill.
to finish a meeting, an agreement etc by dealing with all the details that remain: · If we can tie up the loose ends in the next ten minutes, we'll break for an early lunch.· Apart from a few loose ends that need to be tied up, everything has gone according to schedule.
also finalise British to do the last things that are necessary in order to settle an agreement, plan, or arrangement in a satisfactory way: · Mr Samuels is flying to Detroit to finalize the details and sign the contract.· The meeting has been postponed until travel arrangements can be finalized.
a place for someone to live the houses, flats etc within a particular area that are available for or are provided for people to live in: · Most of the housing in the area is sub-standard and nothing is being done to improve it.· The council is making a great effort to provide cheap housing and more public facilities.
formal a place where people can live or stay, including houses, flats, hotels etc: · The holiday costs about £400 for a week's accommodation and flights.student/rented/holiday etc accommodation: · I've been looking in the newspapers for student accommodation but it's all so expensive.
a house, flat etc for people to live in - used especially in advertisements or to talk about large numbers of homes: · They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.· Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.
a place where you can live - use this especially when this is difficult to get: · I'll stay at my grandmother's at first, until I find somewhere to live.· Students looking for somewhere to live can go the university accommodation service.
informal a place to live - use this especially when you are comparing this with the possibility of not having anywhere to live at all: · It doesn't matter what kind of place it is, at least you'll have a roof over your head.· It's hard to be cheerful when you haven't even got a roof over your head.
also housing estate British an area where houses have all been built together in a planned way: · Jane has her own house on a neat housing estate in the south-east.council estate (=an estate built by the local government, especially to be rented): · They live in a block of flats on a bleak council estate.
American informal a group of houses or apartments usually built with government money for poor people to rent: · Under this proposal, Federal money will no longer go to public housing projects but will go instead directly to the people.· Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project· She says she wants something better for her kids than what she had in the projects.
a group of new buildings that have all been planned and built together on the same piece of land: · New developments are springing up all around the town.
to permanently leave the house where you live to leave your home or the area where you live: · This has been such a lovely home - I'll be sorry to leave.· He left his hometown when he was 16, and he hasn't been back there since.· Thousands of people have already left the capital in order to get away from the fighting.
to permanently leave your home, usually one you rent or share with someone else, taking all your possessions with you: · If the landlord raises the rent again, we'll just have to move out.· Diana and I aren't together any more. I've moved out.move out of: · Tom moved out of his apartment in Toronto last month.
if a young person leaves home , they leave their parents' house because they think they are old enough to live on their own: · Gwen had left home at 18 to find a job in New York.· The house is getting too big for us now that both the children have left home.· Jane was sure that her decision to leave home and marry Joe was the right one.
if a young person runs away , they secretly leave their parents' home or the place where they are living because they are very unhappy there: · I ran away at the age of twelve, but my Dad came and found me at the bus station before I could leave town.run away to: · At the age of fifteen, Malcolm ran away to California.run away from home: · Thousands of children run away from home each year.
a word used especially in hotels, on notices etc meaning to leave the room or house you have been staying in, taking all your possessions with you: · Guests are requested to vacate their rooms before 12 o'clock on the day of departure.
when pictures, films etc do not make things seem real also realise British · Tim only realized his mistake the next day.· Without realising it, we had gone the wrong way.· Oh, is that your chair? Sorry, I didn't realize.realize (that) · She woke up and realised that there was someone moving around downstairs.
if something occurs to you, you suddenly realize that it might be true, especially when you had been thinking something completely different before: it occurs to somebody (that): · It suddenly occurred to me that maybe she was lying.· Didn't it ever occur to you that they would probably like to be alone together?
to slowly realize something, especially over a fairly long period of time: become aware of: · I was slowly becoming aware of how much Melissa was suffering.become aware that: · He became aware that the man sitting opposite was staring at him intently.
if a fact or someone's words sink in , you gradually realize their full meaning: · The news of the President's assassination had only just begun to sink in.· Winning this tournament means so much to me. It hasn't really sunk in yet.
if a fact dawns on you, you slowly start to realize it, especially when you should have realized it before: · The awful truth only dawned on me later.it dawns on somebody that: · It slowly dawned on her that they were all making fun of her.it dawns on somebody how/why etc: · It didn't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got to the hospital.
if an idea or thought strikes you, you suddenly realize something: it strikes somebody (that): · It struck her one day, when she was walking home from school, that she hadn't thought about her weight for over a month.· It just struck me - you must have been in the same class as my brother.
if a fact hits you, you suddenly realize its importance or its full meaning and you feel shocked: · The full impact of what he'd said hit me a few hours later.it hits somebody: · Suddenly it hit me. He was trying to ask me to marry him.
to begin to fully realize and understand something, especially after you have avoided thinking about it because it is unpleasant or it makes you feel uncomfortable: · How long will it be before people wake up to the fact that anyone can catch AIDS.· The speaker warned that we must "wake up to the fact that we are in a tough competitive market".
spoken say this when you suddenly realize something that makes a subject or situation easy to understand: · Then it clicked. The man at the station must have been her brother!it clicked what/how/where etc: · Finally it clicked what all the fuss had been about.
to make someone realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is: · This is the last place you would expect there to be a murder. It just brings it home to you that this kind of thing can happen anywhere.· It often takes something like a heart attack to bring home to people the danger of smoking.
feeling relaxed feeling calm, comfortable, and not worried or annoyed: · The people in Hawaii are so relaxed -- I could have stayed another fortnight.· Looking relaxed and confident, the president answered a barrage of questions from the press. feel relaxed: · I think people feel more relaxed wearing casual clothes.
informal relaxed, and not easily worried or annoyed: · My parents are pretty laid-back and don't mind me staying out late.· He seems like a laid-back kind of a guy.· a laid-back lifestyle
informal happy and relaxed, and not often annoyed or angry: · You were always so relaxed and easy-going. It was one of the things I liked about you.· William did his best to maintain an easy-going, friendly relationship with everyone at camp.
feeling relaxed in a situation in which most people might feel a little nervous, uncomfortable, or anxious: · I've always felt completely at ease among the Palestinians.be/feel at ease with: · He was surprised to find himself so at ease with her father.· After six months in the job, I was starting to feel more at ease with the kids.
happy and without worries, especially because you are with someone you like and trust or because you are in a situation you are used to: be/feel comfortable with: · A lot of our female patients are not comfortable with the idea of a male doctor.be/feel comfortable doing something: · When choosing a baby-sitter, look for someone both you and your child feel comfortable with.· Would you be comfortable using this type of machinery?· This is an emotional issue, which most people aren't comfortable talking about.
to feel relaxed because you are in a place or situation similar to one that you know very well: · As in your previous job, we also use computers a lot -- so you should feel right at home here.feel at home with: · He was fond of using his hands and felt at home with machinery.feel at home doing something: · Right now, I feel more at home writing for the stage rather than film.
very relaxed in the company of other people, and not at all shy about showing your true feelings and opinions: · Her acting is completely spontaneous and uninhibited.· The Trobrand islanders are happy, sexually uninhibited people.uninhibited about: · The boys were quite uninhibited about performing in front of strangers.
to go to the place where you were before · I left my hometown 12 years ago, and I have no desire to go back.go back to · When will you be going back to Japan?go back for · We'll have to go back for the tickets - I think I left them on the desk.go back in/out/inside/downstairs etc · It's cold out here - shall we go back inside?· The phone started ringing again as soon as I went back upstairs.go back the way you came · Part of the trail was flooded, so we had to go back the way we had come.go back home · Frank's gone back home to visit his parents and won't be back for a week.
if someone comes back , they return to the place where you are: · Rachel's left me, and I don't think she'll ever come back.come back to: · When will you be coming back to London?come back from: · He's just come back from a vacation in Miami.come back for: · Whoever left the gloves will probably come back for them tomorrow.
to go back or come back to the place where you were before. Return is used more in written or formal contexts than go back or come back: · I left early, but promised to return the next day.return to: · He had to return to India to look after his mother.return from: · Alastair returned from the office late that night.return home: · As the soldiers returned home, their wives had to readjust to living with them again.
to return to your home or to the country where you were born: · It's late - I should go home now.· John used to go home once a month when he was at college.go home to: · I've enjoyed my time in Europe, but I'm really looking forward to going home to America.
to return to the house where you live: · What time did you get in last night?· I usually get home about 7:30 - you can try calling me after that.get in/get home from: · He hasn't had anything to eat yet. He just got home from work.
to be in the place where you were before you went away: · Jack! What a surprise! How long have you been back?· Carol is away on business, but she should be back next week.· We'll get together when you're back from vacation.
: run/drive/fly/walk etc back go back to where you were before by running, driving etc: · We took the train to Paris, but flew back.back to/from etc: · We cycled back from the beach in the evening.· It was a beautiful day, so I decided to walk back to the office.
the town where you are from the town where you were born, where you lived as a child, or where you live now: · Sarajevo is my home town and I did not want to leave.home town of: · Johnson lived in Seattle for ten years before returning to his home town of Cody, Wyoming.
the place where you were born or the place where you usually live, especially if this is where you feel happy and want to live: · Her home, she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.feel like home: · I've lived in Madrid for many years, and it feels like home to me now.
to be used to something if you are used to something, you have often done it or experienced it before, so it does not seem strange, new, or difficult to you: · At first Omar hated the rain in England, but he's used to it now.· The car breaks down so often, I suppose I should be used to it by now.be used to doing something: · She grew up on a farm, so she's used to getting up early.· My grandfather was used to having everything done for him.
formal to be used to something, especially because it is a normal part of your life: · Americans are much more accustomed to computer technology these days.be accustomed to doing something: · They were already accustomed to waiting, so no one complained.· A few of the men in the office weren't accustomed to taking orders from women.
to be so used to something that you feel comfortable and happy with it, especially because you have learned how to do it well: · Jim has lived in Tokyo for 20 years, so he is perfectly at home with Japanese customs.· Practise using the computer until you feel at home with the mouse and keyboard.
to win easily · Everyone expected the Democrats to win easily.win something easily · She won the race easily with seconds to spare.
to win very easily without having any problems: · The Socialists will win hands down if the election is free and fair.· The newer model wins hands down when it comes to speed and capacity.
if a game, competition etc is no contest , one person or team wins so easily that it is impossible for their opponent to win: · In the end it was no contest. New Labour won more votes than even they thought possible.
to win a game or competition very easily, especially because you are much better than your opponents: · United have established a clear lead, and are threatening to run away with the championship.
American to be very likely to easily win an election, competition etc, by having many more points, votes etc than you opponents: · He looked like a shoo-in to win South Carolina's Republican presidential primary.
to win very easily, in a way that impresses people - used especially in news reports: · Olson scored twice as the Rams swept to victory.· Nixon swept to victory by 47 million votes to 29 million.
British informal to win a race or game easily: · No goals were scored in the first half but Spurs romped home in the second, scoring four.
to win when you almost lost if someone wins something or is elected by a narrow margin , they win by getting only a few more points, votes etc than their opponent: · We won the debate by a narrow margin.· Winning by a narrow margin, the Lakers now go on to play in the championships.
British to win by a very small number of votes or points, or by a very small distance in a race: · The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.· The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
also be a close-run thing British if a race, competition, election etc is close or is a close-run thing , any person or party could win because they all have nearly the same number of points, votes etc, or are close to each other in the race: · The election was very close - a handful of votes decided it.· The champions have kept their title, but it was a close-run thing.
WORD SETSboard, nouncatch, nouncat's cradle, nouncold, adjectiveconsolation prize, noundice, noundie, noundraw, verbfollow-my-leader, nounfriendly, noungame, noungyroscope, nounhome, nounhoopla, nounhopscotch, nounjigsaw, nounjump rope, nounmahjong, nounplayground, nounpoint, nounretire, verbroll, verbroll, nounRussian roulette, nounscoreboard, nounscorecard, nounshaker, nountag, nountiddlywinks, nountreasure hunt, nountrick, nountrivia, nounwarm, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meanings 1 & 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + home
The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad. He was back home by half past eleven. What time will you be coming home? There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths. How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods. The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. The price of home ownership is increasing. I’ll get Nick to see you home. I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=a caring family without a lot of changes)· He had grown up in a stable home.
(=a happy family)· We had a happy home.
(=a family in which the parents have separated)· Many of the youngsters came from broken homes.
(=where a family lives)· The house was once the family home of the O'Dare family.
(=where a husband and wife live)· He left the marital home to move in with his lover.
(=where you lived as a child)· I had not been back to my childhood home for ten years.
· Flood victims were offered temporary homes.
verbs (=live with your parents)· More people in their twenties are still living at home because housing is so expensive.
(=stop living with your parents at home)· Lisa had left home at age 16.
(=do your work at home instead of at an office)· I work at home three days a week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad.· What’s your home address?
· Jo should arrive home any minute now.
He was back home by half past eleven. (=in the place that you come from and think of as your home) It reminded me of evenings back home.
It reminded me of evenings back home. (=when a woman gives birth at home, not in a hospital)· I decided I wanted a home birth for my second child.
· I love home-made bread.
· Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.
(=in people’s own homes)· You can find home care through family service agencies.
· Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
(=where they were born or grew up)· He said that he never wanted to leave his home city.
What time will you be coming home?· This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
(=food cooked at home, not in a restaurant)· Home cooking always tastes best to me.
(=where you were born or live permanently)· After five years in America, she returned to her home country, Japan.
· Your father said he’d be home early.
· A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
(=where someone's family live and where they lived as a child)· Her family home is in a village outside Derry.
(=fans at their own team’s sports field)· The home fans cheered the team onto the pitch.
(=played at a team's own sports field)· Next Saturday Liverpool have a home game against Manchester United.
There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. (=a subject etc that you know something about) In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground.
In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths.· The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. (=time that you are allowed to spend at home from a job that is far away, for example in the army, or from prison)· Roberts had failed to return from home leave, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). (=a loan to buy a home or a car)· They took out a thirty-year home loan.
Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods.· They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. (=played at the place where a team usually practises)· They have won their last five home matches.
British English (=go to live in a different house) My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job. (=someone who owns their house)
The price of home ownership is increasing. (=after tax etc has been taken away)· Their average take-home pay is just £120.
(=one that you make at home)· Home remedies for colds include honey and lemon.
British English The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race.
The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race. I’ll get Nick to see you home. (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)
I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? (=the team whose sports field a game is being played on)· Hayward then increased the home team’s lead.
(=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.
(=finish in a bad position) He trailed in last after a disastrous race.
He trailed in last after a disastrous race. (=the place that someone comes from or lives in) We beat Canada on their home turf.
We beat Canada on their home turf. It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.· After spending a night in a foster home, both girls went to spend Christmas with their grandparents.· It relies on foster homes to provide rescued pets a supportive place to recover until good owners can be found.· All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.· Four are living together in one foster home and are expected to be adopted by that family.· Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.· Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.· The next day they came back and removed him to a temporary foster home.· Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
· A 36-year-old woman died when a tornado swept through her mobile home.· My dad was a minister, and we traveled a lot on weekends in a mobile home.· Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles.· Some 70 mobile homes were flooded.· Our mobile home was well equipped with two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen.· Hubert Hagen and Bill Dickson each own mobile homes south of the McNemars.· A couple hiding in a wardrobe escaped unhurt after their mobile home flew 20 yards into a neighbour's house.· The retired Internal Revenue Service employee paid $ 15, 500 for the two-bedroom mobile home on space 72.
· However, if you find you do start to lose fish mysteriously, then find a new home for the Pictus.· A new rail line to the South Shore is opening the area to business and a flurry of new homes.· However, a new home was now the big one.· Or they moved to escape memories, to search for new lives and new homes.· Problems with their original pitch mean they need a new home venue and are always looking for new members, including men.· At their new home, across town, a residential place for the elderly, Jerome fit right in.· The regional plan for the South-east proposes that some 57,000 new homes should be provided each year.· But lower-priced new homes in entry-level Maryland bedroom communities like Bowie and Arnold are moving.
· So the only thing there was, was to be in this hospital, or to go to a residential home.· Being 18, I was too old for many children's homes and too young for adult residential homes.· Finding your feet Many residential homes are almost like large families.· The first few days in a residential home can be very frightening for many elderly people.· There may also be problems for homosexuals in a residential home.· That's where the growth is taking place in the residential homes.· A person admitted to a residential home is joining a different social system, away from the family.
· Not a single house in town could match the numerous stately homes in nearby Farmington or Simsbury.· Compton House, another stately home, houses a fine collection of butterflies from all over the world.· A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun, divorced from politics.· Stately homes Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes.· I remember a stately home which proudly displayed a Nelson letter the original of which was in the National Maritime Museum.· Twelve miles away at Goodwood, you can visit the racecourse, stately home, and country park.· It was, of course, the perfect training for a housewife, even if the house in question were a stately home.
NOUN· A home care assistant visits daily.· In the last six months of 1994 we had 65 people on home care.· In-service training, weekly group meetings and monthly supervision sessions were all provided for the home care aides.· Spending most of each day in out-of-home care is a real risk factor for a baby.· The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m.· Long-term nursing home care insurance is prohibitively expensive.· There are also plans to set up a Lothian-wide Information Service for people thinking about residential or nursing home care.· The numbers of men, women and children covered by home care with 24 hour on call has doubled in a year.
· I think we only lost about 4 home games.· That meant he and Joanne came to most every home game.· Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years!· Thursday night is really, really the first home game for the Oakland Raiders.· The bear used to go hunting, and bring home game for both of them.· And with 20 of the team's 28 scheduled home games canceled, season-ticket holders are out about $ 464,000.· Boro are likely to ask the Football League to postpone next Tuesday's rearranged home game against Barnsley.· It is attached to the hotel where the Packers stay the night before their home games.
· He had his luxury mock-Tudor mansion in Purley, his holiday home in Tenerife.· Cuendet, a company offering holiday homes in everything from converted castles to farmhouses, was the best bet.· He would come back and find the heavy mob were selling Tombstone as holiday homes.· The mill and workshops now form a large dwelling as well as holiday homes.· Nestling in the hillside in the grounds of the Estate are some of the most exclusive holiday homes in the world.· The brochures offer holiday homes costing from £55 a week and touring and camping facilities from as little as £3.60 a night.· All Key classified holiday homes will provide at least some of the facilities found in those of a higher classification.· For these are no ordinary holiday homes.
· Her honour is tarnished, her home life shattered, her future uncertain.· She has a good day and a good home life where we value and support and teach her.· But I've benefited enormously from having a stable, normal home life.· As long as you set the proper goal: not integration with your home life, but separation from it.· The reality is that a child is a time-consuming, all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life.· One afternoon that summer, over lunch in the park, Anna talked about her home life.· Is drinking making your home life unhappy? 2.· Chess is not only a part of home life.
· In the home market, it led the field by a long way, with 4,337,487 units sold.· The home market might be worried about it, and some more people are looking toward clones than Apple product.· The company believes even the home market has been boosted by the housing recession, with people preferring to redecorate rather than move.· The company also will demonstrate a new keyboard aimed at the home market that incorporates a built-in paper scanner.· Credit card donations: Back on the ladder Stella Bingham First-timers spot bargains as home market moves at last.· Acer is one of the few companies shipping a monitor of this size aimed at the home market.· As well as increasing export earnings they also add to the pipeline network supplying the home market.· Wooden hoops used on casks for the home market were usually of hazel and were produced by local firms from local timber.
· Owner Fred Davies is challenging the council after being refused permission to convert the ailing hotel into a nursing home.· She was a patient at the Ashbury Lodge nursing home in Swindon in February.· In its present form it is substantially an early eighteenth-century building, and now serves as a local nursing home.· In the last decade the private sector has started to develop the amount of residential and nursing home care it provided.· Meg thought of Eva Kovacks in the nursing home in Essex and knew who had the best life.· After a lengthy period of care at home, she was first admitted to hospital, then to a nursing home.· Trading places: Staff and residents at a nursing home near Middleton St George have raised more than £120 by trading places.
· Three out of four home owners expressed concern about the greenhouse effect.· Were they ministers, the funeral home owner, the largest landowner?· The Royal Commission wants more grants for home owners to remove lead pipes.· Inviting other home owners and managers to each home in turn indicates the extent to which this openness has developed.· He also wanted to scrap the council tax discount offered to second-home owners.· The next few days could decide the fate of thousands of hard-pressed workers, home owners and firms.· For instance, home owners are challenging local authorities' proposed new contracts on the grounds that their terms are unfair.· In some areas, both the client and social services will pay the home owner.
· At the same time home ownership became easier and the norm.· The mortgage interest deduction promotes home ownership.· More significant predictors, especially in recent elections, have been location and home ownership.· Forbes would eliminate all loopholes, including the popular mortgage interest deduction aimed at encouraging home ownership.· The home ownership rate among women continues to lag, Cisneros said at a news conference.· Far from bringing an end to worry, home ownership became a struggle to stay in the place called home.· Because the tax break for mortgage interest would disappear, the finances of home ownership would change.
· Even a Riddick Bowe victory over Holyfield next week is unlikely to make it any easier to give Lewis a home run.· Obtained in an offseason trade with Atlanta, he had struggled most of the season offensively and only hit 12 home runs.· The stalemate enabled the fallen champions to end a nine-match run of away defeats and extended Arsenal's poor home run.· His home run was off lefty Yorkis Perez.· Then Hank Aaron hit his first home run in an All-Star Game.· Voila, Williamson set a home run record that lasted 35 years.· The home run was his fourth of the spring.
· Tim Curtis top-scored for the home side with forty-five.· But when Mike Mannion cut loose the home side collapsed to 127 all out.· Having dominated the opening 10 minutes, the home side gave up.· Alderley Edge side Icicals scored 186-6 when they visited Burnage, the home side managed 163-9 in reply.· The home side went ahead through Thierry Henry in the first half and Nwankwo Kanu in the second.· Not until the final quarter did the home side recover their composure, by which time it was way too late.· The Cheshire player took 5-32 as the home side struggled.· But a fine 61 from Martin Jones steered the home side to a thrilling win.
· The crowd also grows louder as the home team takes the lead or is on a run, which is fun.· You have some one else on your home team.· The home team was being booed off the court.· The home team has not beaten the Scarlets for some dozen matches and should still have their work cut out to win.· The home team won 8-0 and hooked Lawson, whose allegiance has never wavered.· The home team was not quite as productive.
· C., and Paris, to move to his home town of Perry, Ga., after getting married.· The 18-year-old blue eyed beauty will represent her home town at the Miss Ireland competition in Dublin later this year.· Washington the landmark is mostly white, affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town.· It is outwardly then a buoyant picture: a long-established family firm mindful of its responsibility to its home town.· It's in his adopted home town that I first witness him.· The outskirts of her home town excited her as a magical cavern will a child.
· If I lost her, we would never find our way home.· The girl had insisted on driving her all the way home.· Could something have happened to her on the way home last night?· Young Dan Tennant, a farm labourer from Bakers Farm was on his way home for lunch.· On her way home, she tossed her diaphragm in the first bin at Kennedy Airport.· The next day he and another Bengali boy who lives near by chose another way home, hoping to escape the attackers.
VERB· How, they will be able to build a home, community for themselves remains uncertain.· Others purchase sites, and a few have even built small homes on foundations.· But women you want to keep a hold of, to share and build a home with, these are not allowed.· My parents had built a pleasant little home for $ 6, 000 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.· I like building my nest at home.· Farrakhan, upon his return, said he would accept the money to build homes, factories and schools.· They alleged they were misled about the cost of building their own luxury homes.· Neswood-Gishey and her husband are building a new home in a village about 50 miles away.
· But it is here, at this Hillcrest hospital, where he feels at home.· This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home.· Those elements are inherent in Hispanic culture, making people such as Thomas feel at home.· It made him feel more at home.· Though the rector had been here but once before, he felt instantly at home.· I think it will make our international clientele feel at home.· Amelia felt at home and fitted in.
· What a strange feeling to be leaving Gateshead, my home for the whole of my childhood!· One last word about emergency rooms. Leave jewelry at home and bring only enough money to pay the required fees.· Who could ever have left a home where Christopher was growing up?· They left their first temporary home last fall when the overcrowded camp ran out of fresh water and space.· Meirion desperately needed more remunerative work and was on the point of leaving his home town.· But sometimes he forgets and leaves them at home.· He takes pride in clearing his desk at 5.30p.m. and leaving for home.· Barry Bonds not withstanding, major-leaguers generally leave their parents at home.
· Rabbits are not territorial creatures to the extent of evicting other rabbits moving into their home ground from further afield.· C., and Paris, to move to his home town of Perry, Ga., after getting married.· As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.· Would they move to his home, to servant quarters behind his house?· As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.· The couple returned to the United States and moved into a small home in Copperas Cove.· He has one small child and wants to move to a bigger home in order to have some more.· It will give victims of the temblor additional time to find new housing or move back into homes still under repair.
· Nearly Bthree-quarters of whites own their homes, compared with 45. 8 % of Bblacks and 43 % of Latinos.· I own my own home. l own another home in Lake Tahoe. l have stocks.· Except during tours, the privately owned homes are not open to the public.· Midlanders value owning their own home more than Southerners, who think that freedom is important.· Cisneros said psychological factors also prevent some women from owning homes.
· However, a large proportion of married women do work outside the home, particularly in part-time work.· MacArthur says that the husband alone should work outside the home.· She's still in business, but now she's a one woman band working at home from her garage.· Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.· But I could always work from home.· Besides, the boss has either taken the day off or is working from home or at a satellite office.· Every educator has a personal story to tell from working in our home care teams.· The findings also suggest that recession and growing parental responsibility have resulted in fewer legalized women immigrants working outside the home.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► at home► dogs’/cats’ home► what’s that when it’s at home?PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s chickens have come home to roost► drive something home► drum something home► an Englishman’s home is his castle► hammer something home► peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc► press something home► ram something home► somebody’s spiritual home
- Make yourselves at home. Would you like a cup of coffee?
- Cynthia, he thought, did not have much trouble making herself at home.
- Here, sit down and make yourself at home.
- Nothing like making yourself at home.
- Perspective 6: People make themselves at home throughout the solar system.
- She had to make herself at home, somehow.
- She pulled off her hat, she made herself at home.
- They float right through the glass and make themselves at home.
- Two weeks later a young married couple were the new tenants filling the house, making themselves at home.
- He had done his best to make Harvey feel at home.
- It is our duty to make them feel at home here.
- Or some chum of Matt's put it there to make him feel at home.
- The g was less, and that made me feel at home.
- Tourists too can expect a right Royal welcome, for the traditional friendliness of the islanders makes everyone feel at home.
- Knowing that her remaining twin was in danger, she rushed to the home of a friend who drove her to hospital.
- Rafah, the home of many of the murdered labourers, was especially tense.
- She grew up in the home of a very kind woman.
- Some girls have to do domestic favours in the homes of their male teachers if they can't make the cash payments.
- The island is the home of some fascinating wild life including alligators, which should be treated with respect.
- There was no telephone in his in-laws' house and he had had to call from the home of a neighbor.
- Today it is the home of John and Hazel Cork who renovated it after years of neglect and a serious fire.
- Two-thirds of the London sample were employed in the homes of artisans, publicans and victuallers.
- And I love working, it's like home from home.
- Here you are surrounded by the natural attractions of the region and have your own fully-equipped home from home.
- In other words, the guest is made to feel that the hotel is a home from home.
- Meanwhile closer to home, it's home sweet home for our footballing sides on parade.
- Well, here we are again, home sweet home.
- Enter Arizona Greyhound Rescue, a non-profit group dedicated to finding homes for the retired racers.
- Now all that is left to do is find a home for the project.
- Some other species are hard to find homes for, even for free.
- As it was with Kip, Martinez seemed to be at home with himself.
- But it is here, at this Hillcrest hospital, where he feels at home.
- Edwin was the only one in the family who felt at home in Los Angeles and remained there.
- The g was less, and that made me feel at home.
- This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home.
- With the politics of action too, I feel at home.
- Would she ever feel at home in this relentless, pitiless city?
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
- Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
- J., the product of a broken home.
- Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
- The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
- They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
- Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
- After all, charity begins at home.
- Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
- And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
- Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
- For a third it might be a school close to home.
- It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
- Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
- She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
- Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
- Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
- They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
- A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
- But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
- Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
- Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
- It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
- John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
- Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
- Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
- All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
- Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
- For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
- Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
- Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
- She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
- This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
- When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
- the joys of hearth and home
- Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
- All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
- By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
- His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
- His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
- I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
- It should hit home to people to take precautions.
- They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
- Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
- Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
- Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
- Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
- The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
- The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
- A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
- Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
- In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
- Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
- We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- As the debate moves into the final stretch, Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
- Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
- I was tired on the home stretch, but the crowd was wonderful.
- The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
- The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
- And then those two words struck home.
- It must have struck home in some way.
- Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
- That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
- The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
- The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
- Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
- Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
- A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
- Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
WORD FAMILYadjectivehomelesshomelyhomewardnounhomehomelessnessadverbhomehomewardsverbhome
1place where you live [countable, uncountable] the house, apartment, or place where you live: They have a beautiful home in California. Good luck in your new home!at home Last night we stayed at home and watched TV.away from home He was spending more and more time away from home.work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at a company office) A family of birds made their home (=started living) under the roof.2family [countable, uncountable] the place where a child lived with his or her family: Jack left home when he was 16. Were you still living at home (=with your parents)? Carrie moved out of the family home a year ago.3where you came from/belong [countable, uncountable] the place where you came from or where you usually live, especially when this is the place where you feel happy and comfortable: She was born in Italy, but she’s made Charleston her home.back home The folks back home don’t really understand what life is like here.4your country [uncountable] the country where you live, as opposed to foreign countriesat home auto sales at home and abroadback home He’s been travelling, but he’s kept up with what’s going on back home.5be/feel at home a)to feel comfortable in a place or with a personhome in/with I’m already feeling at home in the new apartment. After a while we began to feel at home with each other. b)to feel happy or confident about doing or using somethinghome with/in Practise using the camera until you feel quite at home with it.6property [countable] a house, apartment etc considered as property which you can buy or sell: Attractive modern homes for sale.7for taking care of somebody [countable] a place where people who are very old or sick, or children who have no family, are looked after: an old people’s home I could never put Dad into a home. → children's home, nursing home, rest home8make yourself at home spoken used to tell someone who is visiting you that they should relax: Sit down and make yourself at home.9make somebody feel at home to make someone feel relaxed by being friendly towards them: We like to make our customers feel at home.10the home of something a)the place where something was first discovered, made, or developed: America is the home of baseball. b)the place where a plant or animal grows or lives: India is the home of elephants and tigers.11sports team at home if a sports team plays at home, they play at their own sports field OPP awayhome to Birmingham Bullets are at home to Kingston.12home from home British English, home away from home American English a place that you think is as pleasant and comfortable as your own house13home sweet home used to say how nice it is to be in your own home14dogs’/cats’ home British English a place where animals with no owners are looked after15find a home for something British English to find a place where something can be kept: Can you find a home for the piano?16what’s that when it’s at home? British English spoken used humorously to ask what a long or unusual word means17games [uncountable] a place in some games or sports which a player must try to reach in order to win a point → home plate, home runCOLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + homea secure/stable home (=a caring family without a lot of changes)· He had grown up in a stable home.a happy home (=a happy family)· We had a happy home.a broken home (=a family in which the parents have separated)· Many of the youngsters came from broken homes.the family home (=where a family lives)· The house was once the family home of the O'Dare family.the marital home (=where a husband and wife live)· He left the marital home to move in with his lover.somebody’s childhood/boyhood etc home (=where you lived as a child)· I had not been back to my childhood home for ten years.a permanent/temporary home· Flood victims were offered temporary homes.verbslive at home (=live with your parents)· More people in their twenties are still living at home because housing is so expensive.leave home (=stop living with your parents at home)· Lisa had left home at age 16.work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at an office)· I work at home three days a week.THESAURUShome the house, apartment, or place where you live: · More and more people are working from home.· It was past midnight by the time I got home.house a building that someone lives in, especially a building intended for one person, couple, or family: · Shall we meet at your house?· Have you seen Dave’s new house – it’s huge!place spoken informal the house, apartment, or room where someone lives: · We went to Sara’s place after the movie.· He’s just bought a fantastic place right by the sea.residence formal the house or apartment where someone lives, especially a large or official one: · The prime minister’s official residence is 10 Downing Street.· His wife transferred her main residence to Spain.holiday home British English, vacation home American English a house that someone owns by the sea, in the mountains etc, where they go for their holidays: · They bought a luxury holiday home in Spain.home1 nounhome2 adverbhome3 adjectivehome4 verb
homehome2 ●●● S1 W1 adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?
- He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home.
- You can take the laptop home with you if you like.
- And then he blagged a twin-engined Squirrel helicopter to take him home from a rugby match.
- Dreamer placed Tallis on the snow, facing south, facing home.
- Extra ferries are needed to bring them back home.
- She herself went home for the night.
- The day of the trial, I stayed home.
Longman Language Activatorwhere someone lives
the place where you live: · People like to feel secure in their own homes.· Buying your first home is a very important step.family home (=the house where a family has lived for a long time): · To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home.home life (=the things you do at home): · You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.
spoken the place where Jerry, my mother, the Carters etc live: · OK. I'll see you at Helen's at eight o'clock.· We were at the Thompsons' last Saturday for dinner.· You've never been to my sister's, have you?
spoken informal the house, apartment etc where someone lives: · Terry's just bought himself a place over in Newgate, overlooking the harbour.somebody's place: · Why don't you come around to our place for a drink on Saturday?· Your place is too small for a party. Let's have it at mine.
formal someone's home, especially the home of an important person, that is sometimes used for official dinners, meetings etc: · 10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.· We first met at a cocktail party at the residence of the Russian ambassador.
the number of the house or building, and the name of the street, road and town where someone lives: · What's your address and telephone number?change of address (=when you move to a different address): · Notify your credit card company of any change of address.address book (=a list of addresses of your friends, family etc): · I checked my address book for Rick's house number.
to be in your home · I'll be at home tonight if you want to call me.· We're just going to stay at home rather than go away anywhere.· Jim's never home Friday nights. You should know that.stay home · It was raining, so I stayed home.be home alone (=home on your own, used especially about children) · The two-year-old girl had been left home alone.
if someone is in , they are in their home and you can visit them or talk to them on the phone: · "Hello, Mrs Jones. Is Sally in, please?''· We went to see Phil and Tony but there was nobody in.· No, Gerry won't be in until after eight o'clock.
happening or doing something in someone's home · The good thing about my job is that I can often work at home.· Earlier in the century it was normal for women to have their babies at home.· Darren still lives at home with his parents.
happening in or relating to the home: · She likes to keep her domestic life quite separate from her work.· The women had all experienced some form of domestic violence.
words for describing something that is used in people's homes designed to be used in homes: · The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.· Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.
designed to be used in homes, rather than in factories, offices, or other public places: · The gas is used for domestic heating and cooking.· The store sells a wide range of domestic appliances.
to or towards your home: go/come/arrive etc home · He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home.· Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?bring/take something home · You can take the laptop home with you if you like.
to not be in your home especially spoken to not be in your home for a short period: · "Can I speak to Frank?'' "I'm sorry he's out right now.''· While they were out, someone broke in and stole their TV and VCR.
to not be in your home for several days, weeks, or months: · Who's going to look after your cats while you're away?be away from: · Jack worked as a pilot and was often away from home.
to provide someone with a place to live if an organization houses someone, it provides them with a home to live in: · The refugees have been fed, clothed and housed by welfare organizations around the world.
formal to provide someone with a place to live, especially someone who is away from their own home, for example a student: · Once you have been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.· Migrant workers are to be accommodated near the place where they work.
to have no home also have nowhere to live · She was in a strange city, with no job and without anywhere to live.· He's staying at my house because he has nowhere to live right now.
having no home to live in, especially because you are very poor or have been forced to leave your old home: · The possibility that he might become homeless frightened him.· There is a system of shelters for homeless people.· The earthquake left thousands of people homeless.
informal to sleep outdoors in a city because you do not have anywhere to live: · As many as 250,000 children are homeless and on the streets.· He ran away from home and lived rough on the streets until the police helped him get into a hostel.
people who have no home to live in · We distribute food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London.· There aren't enough places in short-stay hostels, so the homeless are reduced to sleeping in cardboard boxes.
American someone who has no home or regular work: · Empty houses attract drug users and transients.· Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.
American informal a person, usually a man, who has no home or regular job and asks people for money on the streets: · A couple of bums were passing a bottle in a doorway.
informal a woman with no home or job who carries all her possessions around with her in a bag: · A bag lady with a shopping cart was picking through the garbage for aluminum cans.
someone, especially a man, who has no home or job , and who often asks people for money to live: · An old tramp was sleeping under Waterloo Bridge, his coat wrapped tight to keep out the cold.
especially written someone who has no home or regular work, and goes from place to place - used especially in legal or official contexts: · Our charity provides shelter, meals, and clothing for vagrants.· The number of vagrants is increasing because of the lack of affordable accommodation for rent in the capital.
to earn an amount of money after tax etc has been taken away to earn a certain amount of money, after tax etc has been taken away from your pay: · Lidia takes home only about $150 a week.· Did you know that plumbers can take home as much as $40,000 a year?
to earn a particular amount of money as a profit after tax has been paid - use this especially to talk about companies or businesses making money: · For the first three months of 1990, Starcorp netted $547 million.· Donna got a raise in February, but she's still only netting $19,000 a year.
to earn a particular amount of money after tax etc has been taken away, especially in a job where you work for yourself: · Sandra cleared £50,000 last year.· A good lawyer can clear $250,000 a year easily.
to emphasize something to say or show that you think something is especially important: · Mann stressed the need to educate people about the risks of AIDS.· She said smoking was not permitted anywhere in the school - emphasizing the word 'anywhere'.emphasize/stress (that): · The County Sheriff emphasized that there was no evidence to show that the driver had been drinking.I can't emphasize enough spoken (=this needs to be emphasized a lot): · I can't emphasize enough how grateful we are for your donations.
to emphasize something such as a problem or a fact, especially by providing new information about it: · This report highlights some of the problems faced by old people in winter.· The slump in the car industry was highlighted by Ford's offer of a $600 rebate on new cars.
if something that happens underlines or underscores a fact, especially one that is already known, it helps to emphasize that it is true: · Yesterday's shelling of a Red Cross hospital underlines the difficulties faced by rescue teams.· The recent rioting in South Africa has underlined the government's lack of control.· The dire state of child health in the country was underscored in a report by UNICEF.
to emphasize a fact or idea by giving additional, often surprising or shocking, information about it: · After the talk, the students were shown a video about heroin addiction to drive the point home.drive the point home/drive home the point that: · The reconstruction of the accident certainly drove home the point that drink-driving can kill.
also make great play of British to emphasize a fact or idea, by giving it more attention than anything else, especially if you are trying to make it seem more important than it really is: · At the interview, remember to play up your experience of teaching in Japan.· On TV last night the Democratic candidate was clearly playing up his caring image.make great play of (doing) something: · The Prime Minister made great play of environmental issues, considering how little the government has done.
to emphasize something, especially the differences between two things or situations: · In Britain, the choice between state and private schools accentuates the differences between rich and poor.· The director uses music to accentuate the rising dramatic tension.
to make something, especially the true facts of a situation, clearer and more noticeable: · Recent protests in the north of the country point up the dilemma the opposition forces are in.· Low literacy rates among the women in this area point up the need for much greater investment in girls' education.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY They brought the baby home from the hospital on Friday. We stayed home last night. I’m going home now. See you tomorrow. The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad. He was back home by half past eleven. What time will you be coming home? There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths. How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods. The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. The price of home ownership is increasing. I’ll get Nick to see you home. I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
They brought the baby home from the hospital on Friday. We stayed home last night. I’m going home now. See you tomorrow. (=arrive at your home) It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home? The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad.· What’s your home address?
· Jo should arrive home any minute now.
He was back home by half past eleven. (=in the place that you come from and think of as your home) It reminded me of evenings back home.
It reminded me of evenings back home. (=when a woman gives birth at home, not in a hospital)· I decided I wanted a home birth for my second child.
· I love home-made bread.
· Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.
(=in people’s own homes)· You can find home care through family service agencies.
· Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
(=where they were born or grew up)· He said that he never wanted to leave his home city.
What time will you be coming home?· This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
(=food cooked at home, not in a restaurant)· Home cooking always tastes best to me.
(=where you were born or live permanently)· After five years in America, she returned to her home country, Japan.
· Your father said he’d be home early.
· A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
(=where someone's family live and where they lived as a child)· Her family home is in a village outside Derry.
(=fans at their own team’s sports field)· The home fans cheered the team onto the pitch.
(=played at a team's own sports field)· Next Saturday Liverpool have a home game against Manchester United.
There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. (=a subject etc that you know something about) In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground.
In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths.· The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. (=time that you are allowed to spend at home from a job that is far away, for example in the army, or from prison)· Roberts had failed to return from home leave, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). (=a loan to buy a home or a car)· They took out a thirty-year home loan.
Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods.· They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. (=played at the place where a team usually practises)· They have won their last five home matches.
British English (=go to live in a different house) My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job. (=someone who owns their house)
The price of home ownership is increasing. (=after tax etc has been taken away)· Their average take-home pay is just £120.
(=one that you make at home)· Home remedies for colds include honey and lemon.
British English The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race.
The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race. I’ll get Nick to see you home. (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)
I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? (=the team whose sports field a game is being played on)· Hayward then increased the home team’s lead.
(=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.
(=finish in a bad position) He trailed in last after a disastrous race.
He trailed in last after a disastrous race. (=the place that someone comes from or lives in) We beat Canada on their home turf.
We beat Canada on their home turf. It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.· When Alice arrived home, she counted what she had.· When Jim arrived home from work, Della told Jim what she had done to buy his Christmas present.· When she arrived home she had found Larry polishing his shoes at the table.· You arrive home, unlock the door, and realize you are very hot and sweaty.· When he arrived home a year later it was too late.· My son arrived home from a summer of camp just a few weeks ago.· Role play: Excuses Thinking Situation: A parent is very angry because their son or daughter has arrived home late.· Judy Boone arrived home to find 28 dead sheep pressed against her fence.
· Being for once in the mood to get things right, Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies.· Go on down there with the boys and bring home some supper.· Life had become easier ... but this was only as she saw it, as Dorothy brought home to her.· He brings home the books that have been given to him by his boss for preparation.· Our room was an ark, and I had no wish for the dove to bring home a green leaf.· She brought home a large jar of holy water from the cathedral.
· You come home in agony because, apparently, few people learn to do it well.· When she comes home, I tell her.· As the first curl of smoke rose into the air, the full enormity of what was happening came home to Sara.· Perhaps I will come home for Easter.· My father is lucky to be coming home alive and unharmed.· Martin Bean did not come home.
· I got into the van and drove home like a zombie.· But then, as I drive home after a failed chase, I can enjoy the sight of the sunset.· She drove home through further rain.· He felt proud of himself as he drove home.· Strange the tricks that life plays, I mused as I drove home, popping the tape of madrigals into the player.· The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 1798: Rebellion will be punished!· Kate drove home in a stupor.· The first couple of times I picked him up he hardly looked at me as we drove home.
· On Monday she flew home to London, to her flat, her office, her own business, her friends.· He got permission to fly home to Detroit for a look-see at his troubled right ankle.· Carwyn was flying home, Ted was working on his self-esteem, Richie was nursing a broken nose.· I remember in the early days flying home from one of my infrequent trips to the outside world.· Mr Major has now flown home to deal with the economic crisis.· While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.· On the Sunday I flew home.· Then he expects her to run when they fly home.
· It started when I got home from hospital after having my baby.· I said I had to get home.· I never eat anything when I get home.· When you get home, start your homework right away.· His mother was out again when he got home that afternoon.· Because police had cordoned off Lake Drive, she was unable to get home to check on her ranch.· I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework.· As soon as she gets home from work, she goes there and closes the door.
· It made him feel he was going home.· Visitors to the camps went home with dismal stories to relate....· You know, this has been a charming evening, but I must go home.· Now that he wants to go home, the money stops coming.· A few dozen herring here or there; nobody troubled: every child went home with a few dozen herring on a string.· I want him to go home.· Needless to say, I went home and apologised for being late.· I want you to go home tonight and take a good look at yourself in the mirror, fully clothed.
· He was here to hammer home plans to spend more on education.· If not, the Internal Revenue Service certainly hammered home the message.· That lesson was hammered home by a 1995 Louis Harris and Associates poll commissioned by the Shriners.· But the vice-president kept hammering home his belief that every vote cast in Florida should be counted before the presidency is awarded.· This is hardly surprising, given the way governments the world over have for decades hammered home the dogma of prohibition.· The real danger of these rigs was hammered home recently during a small Open match which saw me ducking for shelter.· That is precisely the message that our consumer society implicitly hammers home.
· Wright conceded a corner after tipping over Johnson's header and Wark rose unmarked to head home the equaliser.· Having done our bit to fend off a recession we head home, masters of our fates.· After work, all the men went out together to drink before heading home.· My parents locked up and headed home.· Boyd's cross from the left was flicked in by Nicholas.Saints broke immediately and Redford soared to head home Maskrey's cross.· His teammates were long gone, headed home to celebrate the biggest victory of their pro careers.
· She could see that her remark had hit home.· His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.· Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.· By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.· His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.· All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.· And to go back to your start-up page hit Home.· Then her words seemed to hit home.
· Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?· For a complete forward search, press Home Home up arrow to reach the first page before pressing F2.
· When they reached home, happy and a little tipsy, they drank cocoa in the kitchen, then went to separate rooms.· When they reached home it was dusk, and the street looked shabbier than ever.· Her backache got much worse, and when she reached home she was ready to collapse with pain and exhaustion.· She found out what they must do next in order to reach home safely.· By the time Mark reached home that evening, the pains in his head were excruciating.· Although I felt like murdering her at the time I regretted having hit her long before I reached home.· Yanto's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night.· She cycled quickly along the lane out of the town, hoping to reach home before the storm burst.
· Fifthly, the disappointment at not returning home becomes another loss.· Everywhere, refugees are beginning to return home.· It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home.· In November of 1969 John Wade returned home with a great many decorations.· The pensioner was later treated in hospital and was taken to a nursing home because she was too distressed to return home.· He hoped to escape El Paso, do great things, and return home a hero.· Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.· Since the children know they need their parents desperately, they attempt to return home after being deserted.
· Oliver, who had a natural distaste for policemen, crossed the road and ran home, on the other side.· But his eyes, dey get muy grande and he take to feet an try to run home.· He ran home, blood trickling down his left cheek.· Terror-stricken, I dropped my fragrant booty and ran home.· Then I ran home as fast as I could.· I run home, skipping and humming to myself.· The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father.· She ran home sobbing at lunch time.
· The first group was sent home in a widely criticised night operation two weeks ago.· Everyone was sent home with the assignment to draft a proposed definition.· When he refused he was sent home, with lavish presents, to complete his task.· If Sean forgot the sheet or if it was not signed, he was sent home.· At the same time he arranged for Burgess to be sent home to extricate Maclean before the net closed.· Some 800, 000 federal workers were sent home for six days in November.· The recently arrived cultural attache, Ian Sloane, was among the diplomats to be sent home.· Finally, a substantial number of Volunteers were sent home for disciplinary reasons.
· Best of all, Joe was sure of being able to stay home after his trip.· Women could stay home and have kids.· David had not gone to his office, had stayed home to help her.· Whichever way we say this, any sensible person knows that the staying home is because of the rain.· Many sympathisers stayed home at the last election, no longer fearing that Jose· Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time.· And what about women who want to stay home with their children?
· Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.· And then those two words struck home.· That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.· It must have struck home in some way.· The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.· The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.· Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
· I was walking home, a chore, accomplished, looking forward to nothing to do.· He walked home, oddly troubled.· She was walking home near Colbayns School when a man approached her and asked the time.· Couples walked home from late dinners.· A few people were about, returning from church or walking home with a newspaper or a neatly wrapped pastry.· He walked home and told his mother his adventures.· Encouraged by reflecting on these events, we walked home arm in arm.
· He often writes home about his window boxes.· I was thrilled, and I promptly wrote home.· In May the Girls would sit out on the steel fire escapes during shows and write home complaining about the unaccustomed heat.· Stewart wrote home in late 1937.· When she wrote home, as she now did regularly, she wrote believing herself to be very contented.· I wrote home that this place made Tijuana look like Palm Springs.· A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.· Letters are written home, and before the night seems settled, dawn is breaking and another day begins.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc► hit/drive/hammer etc something home► bring something home to somebody/come home to somebodyPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s chickens have come home to roost► drive something home► drum something home► an Englishman’s home is his castle► hammer something home► peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc► press something home► ram something home► somebody’s spiritual home
- And when Chris Allen was upended in the area, United probably thought they were home and dry.
- He says he is home and dry.
- If Components Bureau can beat the champions for a second time, then they will virtually be home and dry.
- He's lost a lot of weight, but he's not home free yet.
- The reality of the war didn't hit home until someone from the neighborhood was killed.
- All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
- And to go back to your start-up page hit Home.
- By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
- His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
- It must have struck home in some way.
- She could see that her remark had hit home.
- They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
- Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
- Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
- J., the product of a broken home.
- Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
- The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
- They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
- Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
- After all, charity begins at home.
- Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
- And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
- Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
- For a third it might be a school close to home.
- It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
- Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
- She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
- Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
- Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
- They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
- A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
- But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
- Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
- Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
- It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
- John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
- Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
- Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
- All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
- Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
- For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
- Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
- Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
- She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
- This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
- When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
- the joys of hearth and home
- Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
- All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
- By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
- His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
- His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
- I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
- It should hit home to people to take precautions.
- They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
- Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
- Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
- Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
- Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
- The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
- The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
- A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
- Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
- In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
- Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
- We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- As the debate moves into the final stretch, Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
- Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
- I was tired on the home stretch, but the crowd was wonderful.
- The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
- The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
- And then those two words struck home.
- It must have struck home in some way.
- Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
- That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
- The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
- The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
- Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
- Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
- A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
- Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
WORD FAMILYadjectivehomelesshomelyhomewardnounhomehomelessnessadverbhomehomewardsverbhome
1to or at the place where you live: Is Sue home from work yet?bring/take somebody/something home They brought the baby home from the hospital on Friday. We stayed home last night. I’m going home now. See you tomorrow.come/get/reach etc home (=arrive at your home) It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home?2take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc to earn a certain amount of money after tax has been taken off: The average worker takes home around $300 a week.3hit/drive/hammer etc something home a)to make sure that someone understands what you mean by saying it in an extremely direct and determined way: We really need to drive this message home. b)to hit or push something firmly into the correct position4bring something home to somebody/come home to somebody to make you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is: The episode has brought home to me the pointlessness of this war.5hit/strike home if a remark, situation, or experience hits home, it makes you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is: She could see that her remark had hit home.6be home and dry British English informal to have succeeded in doing something7be home free American English informal to have succeeded in doing the most difficult part of something: If I last five years with no symptoms, I’ll be home free. → close to home at close2(19)GRAMMAR: Patterns with home• You go home, come home, or get home: · We all went home.· I wish he’d come home.· What time did you get home? ✗Don’t say: We all went to home. | I wish he’d come to home. | What time did you get to home?• You go back home or come back home: · Why don’t you go back home and rest? ✗Don’t say: back to homehome1 nounhome2 adverbhome3 adjectivehome4 verb
homehome3 ●●● W3 adjective [only before noun] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- home appliances
- Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.
- a home game
- The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.
Longman Language Activatorwhere someone lives
the place where you live: · People like to feel secure in their own homes.· Buying your first home is a very important step.family home (=the house where a family has lived for a long time): · To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home.home life (=the things you do at home): · You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.
spoken the place where Jerry, my mother, the Carters etc live: · OK. I'll see you at Helen's at eight o'clock.· We were at the Thompsons' last Saturday for dinner.· You've never been to my sister's, have you?
spoken informal the house, apartment etc where someone lives: · Terry's just bought himself a place over in Newgate, overlooking the harbour.somebody's place: · Why don't you come around to our place for a drink on Saturday?· Your place is too small for a party. Let's have it at mine.
formal someone's home, especially the home of an important person, that is sometimes used for official dinners, meetings etc: · 10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.· We first met at a cocktail party at the residence of the Russian ambassador.
the number of the house or building, and the name of the street, road and town where someone lives: · What's your address and telephone number?change of address (=when you move to a different address): · Notify your credit card company of any change of address.address book (=a list of addresses of your friends, family etc): · I checked my address book for Rick's house number.
to be in your home · I'll be at home tonight if you want to call me.· We're just going to stay at home rather than go away anywhere.· Jim's never home Friday nights. You should know that.stay home · It was raining, so I stayed home.be home alone (=home on your own, used especially about children) · The two-year-old girl had been left home alone.
if someone is in , they are in their home and you can visit them or talk to them on the phone: · "Hello, Mrs Jones. Is Sally in, please?''· We went to see Phil and Tony but there was nobody in.· No, Gerry won't be in until after eight o'clock.
happening or doing something in someone's home · The good thing about my job is that I can often work at home.· Earlier in the century it was normal for women to have their babies at home.· Darren still lives at home with his parents.
happening in or relating to the home: · She likes to keep her domestic life quite separate from her work.· The women had all experienced some form of domestic violence.
words for describing something that is used in people's homes designed to be used in homes: · The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.· Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.
designed to be used in homes, rather than in factories, offices, or other public places: · The gas is used for domestic heating and cooking.· The store sells a wide range of domestic appliances.
to or towards your home: go/come/arrive etc home · He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home.· Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?bring/take something home · You can take the laptop home with you if you like.
to not be in your home especially spoken to not be in your home for a short period: · "Can I speak to Frank?'' "I'm sorry he's out right now.''· While they were out, someone broke in and stole their TV and VCR.
to not be in your home for several days, weeks, or months: · Who's going to look after your cats while you're away?be away from: · Jack worked as a pilot and was often away from home.
to provide someone with a place to live if an organization houses someone, it provides them with a home to live in: · The refugees have been fed, clothed and housed by welfare organizations around the world.
formal to provide someone with a place to live, especially someone who is away from their own home, for example a student: · Once you have been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.· Migrant workers are to be accommodated near the place where they work.
to have no home also have nowhere to live · She was in a strange city, with no job and without anywhere to live.· He's staying at my house because he has nowhere to live right now.
having no home to live in, especially because you are very poor or have been forced to leave your old home: · The possibility that he might become homeless frightened him.· There is a system of shelters for homeless people.· The earthquake left thousands of people homeless.
informal to sleep outdoors in a city because you do not have anywhere to live: · As many as 250,000 children are homeless and on the streets.· He ran away from home and lived rough on the streets until the police helped him get into a hostel.
people who have no home to live in · We distribute food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London.· There aren't enough places in short-stay hostels, so the homeless are reduced to sleeping in cardboard boxes.
American someone who has no home or regular work: · Empty houses attract drug users and transients.· Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.
American informal a person, usually a man, who has no home or regular job and asks people for money on the streets: · A couple of bums were passing a bottle in a doorway.
informal a woman with no home or job who carries all her possessions around with her in a bag: · A bag lady with a shopping cart was picking through the garbage for aluminum cans.
someone, especially a man, who has no home or job , and who often asks people for money to live: · An old tramp was sleeping under Waterloo Bridge, his coat wrapped tight to keep out the cold.
especially written someone who has no home or regular work, and goes from place to place - used especially in legal or official contexts: · Our charity provides shelter, meals, and clothing for vagrants.· The number of vagrants is increasing because of the lack of affordable accommodation for rent in the capital.
the true information or facts about something: the truth about · We may never know the truth about what really happened to Marilyn Monroe.· Scientists believe they are close to finding out the truth about the origins of the universe.the truth is (that) · The truth is that the idea of having kids terrifies him.the simple/plain truth (=the truth about something, especially when this is unpleasant) · The simple truth is that I just don't love him anymore.the truth comes out (=the truth becomes known) · Nixon tried to cover up the burglary, but the truth had to come out in the end.
a true piece of information about something: · The most important thing is to find out what the facts are and put the scandal behind us.· Gentry still owed Mr Tilly $7,000, a fact he failed to mention when he was arrested.fact that: · It is a fact that the world is round.hard facts (=definite facts that cannot be argued with): · You need to back up your theory with one or two hard facts.
important facts or principles about life, the world etc that are always true in all situations: · Science is based around the search for truth.· Ellis explains how truth and freedom are linked.· fundamental truths about human nature
British facts about someone which are unpleasant for them to know but are true: · It's about time someone told that woman a few home truths.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY These children need a proper home life. good old-fashioned home cooking The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad. He was back home by half past eleven. What time will you be coming home? There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths. How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods. The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. The price of home ownership is increasing. I’ll get Nick to see you home. I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.
(=the address or telephone number of your house)
These children need a proper home life. good old-fashioned home cooking The home team took the lead after 25 minutes. The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad.· What’s your home address?
· Jo should arrive home any minute now.
He was back home by half past eleven. (=in the place that you come from and think of as your home) It reminded me of evenings back home.
It reminded me of evenings back home. (=when a woman gives birth at home, not in a hospital)· I decided I wanted a home birth for my second child.
· I love home-made bread.
· Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.
(=in people’s own homes)· You can find home care through family service agencies.
· Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
(=where they were born or grew up)· He said that he never wanted to leave his home city.
What time will you be coming home?· This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
(=food cooked at home, not in a restaurant)· Home cooking always tastes best to me.
(=where you were born or live permanently)· After five years in America, she returned to her home country, Japan.
· Your father said he’d be home early.
· A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
(=where someone's family live and where they lived as a child)· Her family home is in a village outside Derry.
(=fans at their own team’s sports field)· The home fans cheered the team onto the pitch.
(=played at a team's own sports field)· Next Saturday Liverpool have a home game against Manchester United.
There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. (=a subject etc that you know something about) In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground.
In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths.· The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. (=time that you are allowed to spend at home from a job that is far away, for example in the army, or from prison)· Roberts had failed to return from home leave, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). (=a loan to buy a home or a car)· They took out a thirty-year home loan.
Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods.· They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. (=played at the place where a team usually practises)· They have won their last five home matches.
British English (=go to live in a different house) My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job. (=someone who owns their house)
The price of home ownership is increasing. (=after tax etc has been taken away)· Their average take-home pay is just £120.
(=one that you make at home)· Home remedies for colds include honey and lemon.
British English The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race.
The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race. I’ll get Nick to see you home. (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)
I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? (=the team whose sports field a game is being played on)· Hayward then increased the home team’s lead.
(=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.
(=finish in a bad position) He trailed in last after a disastrous race.
He trailed in last after a disastrous race. (=the place that someone comes from or lives in) We beat Canada on their home turf.
We beat Canada on their home turf. It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s chickens have come home to roost► drive something home► drum something home► an Englishman’s home is his castle► hammer something home► peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc► press something home► ram something home► somebody’s spiritual home
1relating to or belonging to your home or familyhome address/number (=the address or telephone number of your house)- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
- Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
- J., the product of a broken home.
- Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
- The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
- They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
- Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
- After all, charity begins at home.
- Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
- And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
- Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
- For a third it might be a school close to home.
- It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
- Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
- She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
- Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
- Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
- They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
- A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
- But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
- Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
- Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
- It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
- John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
- Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
- Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
- All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
- Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
- For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
- Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
- Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
- She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
- This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
- When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
- the joys of hearth and home
- Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
- All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
- By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
- His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
- His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
- I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
- It should hit home to people to take precautions.
- They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
- Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
- Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
- Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
- Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
- The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
- The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
- A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
- Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
- In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
- Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
- We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- As the debate moves into the final stretch, Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
- Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
- I was tired on the home stretch, but the crowd was wonderful.
- The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
- The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
- And then those two words struck home.
- It must have struck home in some way.
- Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
- That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
- The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
- The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
- Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
- Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
- A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
- Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
These children need a proper home life.2done at home or intended for use in a home: good old-fashioned home cooking a home computer3played or playing at a team’s own sports field, rather than an opponent’s fieldhome team/game/crowd/club etc The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.4relating to a particular country, as opposed to foreign countries SYN domestic: The meat was destined for the home market.home1 nounhome2 adverbhome3 adjectivehome4 verb
homehome4 ●○○ verb VERB TABLE
home
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | home |
| he, she, it | homes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | homed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have homed |
| he, she, it | has homed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had homed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will home |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have homed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am homing |
| he, she, it | is homing | |
| you, we, they | are homing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was homing |
| you, we, they | were homing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been homing |
| he, she, it | has been homing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been homing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be homing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been homing |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad. He was back home by half past eleven. What time will you be coming home? There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths. How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods. The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. The price of home ownership is increasing. I’ll get Nick to see you home. I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad.· What’s your home address?
· Jo should arrive home any minute now.
He was back home by half past eleven. (=in the place that you come from and think of as your home) It reminded me of evenings back home.
It reminded me of evenings back home. (=when a woman gives birth at home, not in a hospital)· I decided I wanted a home birth for my second child.
· I love home-made bread.
· Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.
(=in people’s own homes)· You can find home care through family service agencies.
· Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
(=where they were born or grew up)· He said that he never wanted to leave his home city.
What time will you be coming home?· This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
(=food cooked at home, not in a restaurant)· Home cooking always tastes best to me.
(=where you were born or live permanently)· After five years in America, she returned to her home country, Japan.
· Your father said he’d be home early.
· A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
(=where someone's family live and where they lived as a child)· Her family home is in a village outside Derry.
(=fans at their own team’s sports field)· The home fans cheered the team onto the pitch.
(=played at a team's own sports field)· Next Saturday Liverpool have a home game against Manchester United.
There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home. (=a subject etc that you know something about) In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground.
In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground. It’s their first defeat at their home ground (=the ground that belongs to a particular team) all season. It’s about time we were heading home. I didn’t think I could hit a home run. It’s time someone told him a few home truths.· The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
How old were you when you left home (=your parents’ home)? My daughter got a job after she left school. The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office. (=time that you are allowed to spend at home from a job that is far away, for example in the army, or from prison)· Roberts had failed to return from home leave, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents). (=a loan to buy a home or a car)· They took out a thirty-year home loan.
Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods.· They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales. (=played at the place where a team usually practises)· They have won their last five home matches.
British English (=go to live in a different house) My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job. (=someone who owns their house)
The price of home ownership is increasing. (=after tax etc has been taken away)· Their average take-home pay is just £120.
(=one that you make at home)· Home remedies for colds include honey and lemon.
British English The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race.
The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race. I’ll get Nick to see you home. (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)
I decided to stay home. Go straight home and tell your mother. As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown. The assassin’s bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should). Would you mind taking Susie home? (=the team whose sports field a game is being played on)· Hayward then increased the home team’s lead.
(=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.
(=finish in a bad position) He trailed in last after a disastrous race.
He trailed in last after a disastrous race. (=the place that someone comes from or lives in) We beat Canada on their home turf.
We beat Canada on their home turf. It’s late – I’ll walk you home. Hello, welcome home. Nowadays, many people are able to work from home.· Final phase of the approval process to build 28 single-family homes on 14.18 acres.· Newton and Marie Shank received final approval to build 10 single-family homes on 17.35 acres. 11.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s chickens have come home to roost► drive something home► drum something home► an Englishman’s home is his castle► hammer something home► peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc► press something home► ram something home► somebody’s spiritual home
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
- Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
- He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
- Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
- J., the product of a broken home.
- Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
- The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
- They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
- Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
- After all, charity begins at home.
- Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
- And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
- Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
- For a third it might be a school close to home.
- It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
- Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
- She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
- Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
- Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
- They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
- A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
- But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
- Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
- Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
- It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
- John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
- Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
- Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
- All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
- Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
- For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
- Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
- Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
- She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
- This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
- When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
- the joys of hearth and home
- Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
- All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
- By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
- His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
- His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
- I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
- It should hit home to people to take precautions.
- They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
- Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
- Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
- Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
- Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
- The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
- The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
- A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
- Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
- In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
- Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
- We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- As the debate moves into the final stretch, Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
- Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
- I was tired on the home stretch, but the crowd was wonderful.
- The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
- The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
- And then those two words struck home.
- It must have struck home in some way.
- Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
- That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
- The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
- The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
- Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
- Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
- A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
- Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
WORD FAMILYadjectivehomelesshomelyhomewardnounhomehomelessnessadverbhomehomewardsverbhome
home in on something phrasal verb1to aim exactly at an object or place and move directly to it: The bat can home in on insects using a kind of ‘radar’.2to direct your efforts or attention towards a particular fault or problem: He homed in on the one weak link in the argument.- tax-deductible
- tax-deferred
- tax disc
- tax dodge
- tax evasion
- tax exempt
- Costa Rican
- cost-benefit
- cost-effective
- cost-effectively
- cost-effectiveness
- Costello, Lou
- costermonger
- costing
- costliness
- costly
- cost of living
- cost-per-action
- cost price
- costume
- costume drama
- costume jewellery
- cosy
- Così fan tutte
- cot