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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
home
adv
  1. at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home"
  2. on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
  3. to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
adj
  1. used of your own ground; "a home game"
    Antonym(s): away
  2. relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town"
  3. inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"
    Synonym(s): home(a), interior(a), internal, national
n
  1. where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"
    Synonym(s): home, place
  2. housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
    Synonym(s): dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
  3. the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey"
  4. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
    Synonym(s): home plate, home base, home, plate
  5. the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
    Synonym(s): base, home
  6. place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball"
  7. an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home"
  8. a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
    Synonym(s): family, household, house, home, menage
  9. an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly"
    Synonym(s): home, nursing home, rest home
v
  1. provide with, or send to, a home
  2. return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Home \Home\, n.
      In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress;
      goal; as:
      (a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands.
      (b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an
            opponent's goal; also, the player.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Home \Home\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      See {Homelyn}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Home \Home\ (110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[be]m; akin to OS.
      hem, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode,
      world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k[89]mas, and
      perh. to Gr.[?] village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.
      ksh[?]ma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. [?],
      [?] ]
      1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives;
            esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the
            habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
  
                     The disciples went away again to their own home.
                                                                              --John xx. 10.
  
                     Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden.
  
                     Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like
                     home.                                                --Payne.
  
      2. One's native land; the place or country in which one
            dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
            [bd]Our old home [England].[b8] --Hawthorne.
  
      3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the
            domestic affections.
  
                     He entered in his house -- his home no more, For
                     without hearts there is no home.         --Byron.
  
      4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first
            found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat;
            as, the home of the pine.
  
                     Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.   --Tennyson.
  
                     Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior.
  
      5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for
            outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave;
            the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling
            place of the soul.
  
                     Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go
                     about the streets.                              --Eccl. xii.
                                                                              5.
  
      6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.
  
      {At home}.
            (a) At one's own house, or lodgings.
            (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at
                  home.
            (c) Prepared to receive callers.
  
      {Home department}, the department of executive
            administration, by which the internal affairs of a country
            are managed. [Eng.]
  
      {To be at home on any subject}, to be conversant or familiar
            with it.
  
      {To feel at home}, to be at one's ease.
  
      {To make one's self at home}, to conduct one's self with as
            much freedom as if at home.
  
      Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Home \Home\, adv.
      1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come
            home, carry home.
  
      2. Close; closely.
  
                     How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.
                                                                              --South.
  
                     They come home to men's business and bosoms.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to
            the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a
            cartridge home.
  
                     Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. --Shak.
  
      Note: 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.
  
      {To bring home}. See under {Bring}.
  
      {To come home}.
            (a) To touch or affect personally. See under {Come}.
            (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding
                  firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.
                 
  
      {To haul home the sheets of a sail} (Naut.), to haul the
            clews close to the sheave hole. --Totten.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Home \Home\, a.
      1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic;
            not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
  
      2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
  
      {Home base} (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands
            and which is the last goal in making a run.
  
      {Home farm}, {grounds}, etc., the farm, grounds, etc.,
            adjacent to the residence of the owner.
  
      {Home lot}, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home
            stands. [U. S.]
  
      {Home rule}, rule or government of an appendent or dependent
            country, as to all local and internal legislation, by
            means of a governing power vested in the people within the
            country itself, in contradistinction to a government
            established by the dominant country; as, home rule in
            Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of
            Parliament.
  
      {Home ruler}, one who favors or advocates home rule.
  
      {Home run} (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made
            before the batted ball is returned to the home base.
  
      {Home stretch} (Sport.), that part of a race course between
            the last curve and the winning post.
  
      {Home thrust}, a well directed or effective thrust; one that
            wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal
            attack.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Homelyn \Home"lyn\, n. [Scot. hommelin.] (Zo[94]l)
      The European sand ray ({Raia maculata}); -- called also
      {home}, {mirror ray}, and {rough ray}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Home, KS
      Zip code(s): 66438
   Home, PA
      Zip code(s): 15747
   Home, WA
      Zip code(s): 98349
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