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I.home1 S1 W1 /həʊm $ hoʊm/ BrE AmE noun
[Word Family: adjective: ↑homeless, ↑homely, ↑homeward; noun: ↑home, ↑homelessness; adverb: ↑home, HOMEWARDS; verb: ↑home]
[Language: Old English; Origin: ham 'village, home']
1. PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE [uncountable and countable] 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.
2. FAMILY [uncountable and countable] 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.
3. WHERE YOU CAME FROM/BELONG [uncountable and countable] 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.
4. YOUR COUNTRY [uncountable] the country where you live, as opposed to foreign countries
at home
auto sales at home and abroad
back home
He’s been travelling, but he’s kept up with what’s going on back home.
5. be/feel at home
a) to feel comfortable in a place or with a person
be/feel at home 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 something
be/feel at home with/in
Practise using the video until you feel quite at home with it.
6. PROPERTY [countable] a house, apartment etc considered as property which you can buy or sell:
Attractive modern homes for sale.
7. FOR 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 home
8. make yourself at home spoken used to tell someone who is visiting you that they should relax:
Sit down and make yourself at home.
9. make somebody feel at home to make someone feel relaxed by being friendly towards them:
We like to make our customers feel at home.
10. the 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.
11. SPORTS TEAM at home if a sports team plays at home, they play at their own sports field OPP away
at home to
Birmingham Bullets are at home to Kingston.
12. home from home British English, home away from home American English a place that you think is as pleasant and comfortable as your own house
13. home sweet home used to say how nice it is to be in your own home
14. dogs’/cats’ home British English a place where animals with no owners are looked after
15. find a home for something British English to find a place where something can be kept:
Can you find a home for the piano?
16. what’s that when it’s at home? British English spoken used humorously to ask what a long or unusual word means
17. GAMES [uncountable] a place in some games or sports which a player must try to reach in order to win a point
⇨ ↑home plate, ↑home run
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COLLOCATIONS (for Meanings 1 & 2)
 ADJECTIVES/NOUN + home
▪ a 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.
▪ sb’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.
verbs
▪ live 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.
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THESAURUS
▪ home 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.
II.home2 S1 W1 BrE AmE adverb
[Word Family: adjective: ↑homeless, ↑homely, ↑homeward; noun: ↑home, ↑homelessness; adverb: ↑home, HOMEWARDS; verb: ↑home]
1. to 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?
► Do not use a preposition such as ‘at’ or ‘to’ before home when it is an adverb: Then we went home (NOT went at home). | He returned home (NOT returned to home).
2. take 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.
3. hit/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 position
4. bring 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.
5. hit/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.
6. be home and dry British English informal to have succeeded in doing something
7. be 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)
III.home3 BrE AmE adjective [only before noun]
1. relating to or belonging to your home or family
home address/number (=the address or telephone number of your house)
These children need a proper home life.
2. done at home or intended for use in a home:
good old-fashioned home cooking
a home computer
3. played or playing at a team’s own sports field, rather than an opponent’s field
home team/game/crowd/club etc
The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.
4. relating to a particular country, as opposed to foreign countries SYN domestic:
The meat was destined for the home market.
IV.home4 BrE AmE verb
[Word Family: adjective: ↑homeless, ↑homely, ↑homeward; noun: ↑home, ↑homelessness; adverb: ↑home, HOMEWARDS; verb: ↑home]
home in on something phrasal verb
1. to aim exactly at an object or place and move directly to it:
The bat can home in on insects using a kind of ‘radar’.
2. to direct your efforts or attention towards a particular fault or problem:
He homed in on the one weak link in the argument.
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Home is where you live. | | | | | | ◎ | [houm] | | ※ | danh từ | | | ■ | nhà, chỗ ở | | | ☆ | to have neither hearth nor home | | | không cửa không nhà | | | ☆ | to be at home | | | ở nhà | | | ☆ | not at home | | | không có nhà; không tiếp khách | | | ■ | nhà, gia đình, tổ ấm | | | ☆ | there's no place like home | | | không đâu bằng ở nhà mình | | | ☆ | make yourself at home | | | xin anh cứ tự nhiên như ở nhà | | | ☆ | the pleasures of home | | | thú vui gia đình | | | ■ | quê hương, tổ quốc, nơi chôn nhau cắt rún, nước nhà | | | ☆ | an exile from home | | | một người bị đày xa quê hương | | | ■ | chỗ sinh sống (sinh vật) | | | ■ | nhà (hộ sinh...), viện (cứu tế, dưỡng lão...), trại (mồ côi...) | | | ☆ | convalescent home | | | trại điều dưỡng | | | ☆ | orphan's home | | | trại mồ côi | | | ■ | đích (của một số trò chơi) | | | 〆 | to be (feel) quite at home | | | ✓ | cảm thấy hết sức thoải mái tự nhiên như ở nhà; không cảm thấy bị lạc lõng | | | 〆 | to be at home in a subject | | | ✓ | thành thạo (thông thạo, quen thuộc, biết rõ) một vấn đề | | | 〆 | a home from home | | | ✓ | một nơi mình cảm thấy ấm cúng như gia đình mình | | | 〆 | home is home, be it ever so homely | | | ✓ | ta về ta tắm ao ta, dù trong dù đục ao nhà vẫn hơn | | | 〆 | one's last (long) home | | | ✓ | nấm mồ, nơi an nghỉ cuối cùng | | | 〆 | charity begins at home | | | ✓ | trước khi thương người, hãy thương lấy người nhà mình | | | 〆 | to eat sb out of house and home | | | ✓ | ăn đến nỗi ai phải sạt nghiệp vì mình | | | 〆 | an Englishman's home is his castle | | | ✓ | đối với người Anh, không đâu tự do thoải mái bằng nhà của họ | | | 〆 | a home bird | | | ✓ | người thích ở trong nhà | | | 〆 | one's spiritual home | | | ✓ | chốn thiêng liêng | | | 〆 | when he's at home | | | ✓ | dùng để nhấn mạnh câu hỏi | | | ☆ | who are they when they're at home? | | | họ là ai kia chứ? | | | 〆 | to come home to roost | | | ✓ | (về lời nói) tác động với chính người nói ra những lời đó; tự vả vào miệng | | ※ | tính từ | | | ■ | thuộc về hoặc liên quan đến nhà mình | | | ☆ | a happy home life | | | một cuộc sống gia đình hạnh phúc | | | ☆ | home comforts | | | những tiện nghi trong nhà | | | ■ | được làm hoặc sàn xuất tại nhà | | | ☆ | home cooking | | | nấu ăn tại nhà | | | ☆ | home movies | | | phim gia đình (để trong gia đình (xem) thôi) | | | ■ | trong nước (không phải ngoại nhập); nội địa | | | ☆ | home news | | | tin trong nước | | | ☆ | home industries | | | các ngành kỹ nghệ nội địa | | | ☆ | the home market | | | thị trường nội địa | | | ■ | (thể dục thể thao) chơi ở hoặc liên quan tới sân nhà | | | ☆ | a home match, win, defeat | | | trận đấu, thắng, thua trên sân nhà | | | ☆ | home team | | | đội nhà (khác với các đội ở các nơi khác đến) | | | ☆ | the Home Office | | | cơ quan chính phủ Anh chuyên giải quyết các việc luật pháp, trật tự, di dân... ở England và Wales; Bộ nội vụ | | ※ | phó từ | | | ■ | ở tại nhà mình, ở tại nước mình | | | ☆ | to come home | | | đi về nhà | | | ☆ | to send sb home | | | đưa ai về nhà, cho ai hồi hương | | | ☆ | to stay home | | | ở nhà | | | 〆 | nothing to write home about | | | ✓ | chẳng có gì đáng nói | | | 〆 | to bring home the bacon | | | ✓ | thành công mỹ mãn | | | 〆 | to bring sth home to sb | | | ✓ | giúp ai hiểu rõ điều gì | | | 〆 | to come home to sb | | | ✓ | là sự thật mà ai không thể phủ nhận | | | 〆 | to come home to roost | | | ✓ | tự vả vào mồm | | | 〆 | to drive sth home to sb | | | ✓ | nhấn mạnh điều gì cho ai hiểu rõ | | | 〆 | to hit home | | | ✓ | trúng đích, thấu cáy, chạm nọc | | | 〆 | to be home and dry | | | ✓ | êm xuôi, xuôi chèo mát mái | | | 〆 | to invalid sb home | | | ✓ | cho ai về nghỉ vì sức khoẻ yếu | | | 〆 | to press home sth | | | ✓ | đạt được điều gì bằng lòng quyết tâm | | | ✓ | đặt cái gì vào đúng vị trí của nó | | | 〆 | till the cows come home | | | ✓ | mãi miết, dài dài | | | ☆ | help her till the cows come home: some day, you will be disappointed in her | | | cứ mãi giúp cô ta, rồi một ngày nào đó, anh sẽ thất vọng về cô ta | | | 〆 | when one's ship comes home | | | ✓ | khi người ta thành đạt |
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