Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word home. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in home.
Definitions and meaning of home
home
Etymology
From Middle Englishhōm, from Old Englishhām, from Proto-West Germanic*haim, from Proto-Germanic*haimaz(“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European*tḱóymos(“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-.
Pronunciation
(UK) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /(h)əʊm/
(US) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /hoʊm/
Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
Rhymes: -əʊm
Noun
home (pluralhomes)
A dwelling.
One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
(by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
[…]because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
(by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home:
I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets:
[…]Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd,[…]
A focus point.
(board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
(baseball) Home plate.
(lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
(Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
(music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
(computing)Clipping of home directory.
Synonyms
(one’s own dwelling place):tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
((baseball) home plate):home base
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
home (third-person singular simple presenthomes, present participlehoming, simple past and past participlehomed)
(of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.
The dog homed.
(always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
The missile was able to home in on the target.
Translations
Adjective
home (not comparable)
Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. [from 13th c.]
(now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]
(obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]
(sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]
Antonyms:away, road, visitor
Derived terms
Adverb
home (not comparable)
To one's home.
To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
To one's place of birth.
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
(Internet) To the home page.
At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.
To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
(UK, soccer) into the goal
2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
(nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
Usage notes
Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
Synonyms
(to home):homeward
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
“home”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
“home”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading
home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Mohe, hemo-
Asturian
Etymology
From Latinhomō, hominem, from Proto-Italic*hemō, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈome/, [ˈo.me]
Rhymes: -ome
Hyphenation: ho‧me
Noun
homem (pluralhomes)
man
L'home equí ye'l fíu la María ― This man here is María's son
person
husband
Synonyms
(person):persona
(husband):esposu, maríu
Derived terms
home del sacu
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalanhome~hom, from Latinhominem(“human”, noun).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic)[ˈɔ.mə]
IPA(key): (Valencian)[ˈɔ.me]
Rhymes: -ɔme
Hyphenation: ho‧me
Noun
homem (pluralhomesorhòmens)
man
husband
Synonyms:cònjuge, espòs, marit
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Interjection
home
A term of address for a man conveying annoyance, impatience, surprise, disagreement, etc.
Home, no sigues bèstia! ― Dude, don't be stupid!
Further reading
“home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Classical Nahuatl
Numeral
ho̊me
(Codex Magliabechiano)Obsolete spelling of ōme
Esperanto
Etymology
From homo.
Adverb
home
humanly; in a human fashion
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic*homëh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic*swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelianhomeh, Vepshomeh.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhomeˣ/, [ˈho̞me̞(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -ome
Syllabification(key): ho‧me
Noun
home
mildew, mold
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
“home”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
hemo
Galician
Alternative forms
homem(reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portugueseome, omẽe, from Latinhomō, hominem, from Proto-Italic*hemō, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈɔme/[ˈɔ.mɪ]
Rhymes: -ɔme
Hyphenation: ho‧me
Noun
homem (pluralhomes)
human; person
mankind
O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969
man (adult male)
Home casado muller é(proverb) ― The Married man is a woman
male human
Home pequeno fol de veleno(proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom
husband
Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim
Usage notes
Home is a false friend, and does not mean home. The Galician word for home is lar.
Derived terms
homiño(“little man”)
lobishome(“werewolf”)
ricohome(“magnate”)
Interjection
home
man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance)
-Es o campión do mundo? Contento? -Home!... ― -You're the champion of the world? Are you happy? -Man!... [Of course I'm happy, what kind of question is this?]
Derived terms
ho
See also
persoa
References
“home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“home” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“home” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“home” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
“home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic*homëh. Cognates include Finnishhome and Vepshomeh.
Alternative form of hame(“hame (part of a harness)”)
Etymology 6
Verb
home (third-person singular simple presenthometh, present participlehomende, homynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participlehomed)
Alternative form of hummen(“to hum”)
Mirandese
Etymology
From Latinhomō, hominem, from Proto-Italic*hemō, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun
homem (pluralhomes)
man
husband
Antonyms
mulhier
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
home (present tensehomar, past tensehoma, past participlehoma, passive infinitivehomast, present participlehomande, imperativehome/hom)
alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012)
Old French
Alternative forms
see hom for alternative nominative singular forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin*(h)omne, Latinhominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈu.mə/
Noun
homeoblique singular, m (oblique pluralhomes, nominative singularhom, nominative pluralhome)
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme)
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)