单词 | at-home |
释义 | at-home[ at-hohm ] / ætˈhoʊm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR at-home ON THESAURUS.COM nounAlso at home . a reception of visitors at certain hours at one's home. adjectivedone or used in the home; intended for one's home: a new line of at-home computers; at-home assignments for free-lance workers. Origin of at-homeFirst recorded in 1740–45 Words nearby at-homeathletic shoe, athletic support, athodyd, Athol, Atholl brose, at-home, -athon, athonite, Athos, athrepsia, athrill Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for at-homeBritish Dictionary definitions for at-homeat-home nounanother name for open day a social gathering in a person's home Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with at-homeat home In one's own residence, town, or country. For example, Mary was not at home when I called, or Tourists in a foreign country often behave more rudely than they do at home. This idiom was first recorded in a ninth-century treatise. Ready to receive a visitor, as in We are always at home to our neighbor's children. This usage gave rise to the noun at-home, meaning a reception to which guests are invited on a specific day at specific hours (also see open house). [c. 1600] Also, at home with. Comfortable and familiar, as in Mary always makes us feel at home, or I've never been at home with his style of management. [Early 1500s] Also see at ease, def. 1. Also, at home with. Proficient, well-versed in, as in Young John is so much at home with numbers that he may well become a mathematician, or Chris is really at home in French. [Late 1700s] In team sports, playing on one's own field or in one's own town. For example, The Red Sox always do better at home than they do at away games. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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