Talk:home

Clean-up
This article needs a lot of work, mostly formatting. &mdash; Hippietrail 03:16, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I've tried my best and this stuff (below) was removed because I'm not sure that it belongs in the main article:--Williamsayers79 21:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

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.
 * (d) At one’s parents’ or guardian’s home or lodgings.

{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, familiar or comfortable with it.

{To feel at home}, to be at one’s ease.

{To make oneself at home}, to conduct one’s self with as much freedom as if at home.

Leave home.
 * (a) To go outside the home.
 * (b) To move out of one’s parents’ home or the home of one’s legal guardian. To move out for autonomy.

{To prepare to leave home}, to seek autonomy.

Translations

 * Hungarian: ház
 * Swedish: hemma

Derived terms

 * home base:, 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 enclosed plot on which the owner’s home stands.
 * home page
 * 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 favours or advocates home rule.
 * home run:, a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base.
 * home stretch: 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.

Derived terms

 * 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.

Proverbs

 * There's no place like home
 * Russian:
 * Home is home though never so homely/poor
 * French: À chaque oiseau, son nid paraît beau.
 * Italian: Casa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia tu mi pari una badia.
 * Piedmontese: Ógni ocel sò nì l’è bel.
 * Spanish: Casa mía, casa mía, por pequeña que tú seas, me pareces abadía.

RFV discussion: September 2018
As a shortened form of homeboy, I don't think that exists. The cite given is for homes, where it is already correctly described as an alternative to the more common holmes (though I think it was more commonly pronounced like homes up until the 80s or so), which by the way is definitely not related to Sherlock Holmes. GaylordFancypants (talk)


 * RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

In the home of one's parents
at home reads In the home of one's parents. Can the adverb home also be used for such a meaning? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Home of one's ancestors, even if one has never been there?
 Hobson-Jobson  has this:


 * HOME. In Anglo-Indian and colonial speech this means England.
 * 1837.—"Home always means England; nobody calls India home—not even those who have been here thirty years or more, and are never likely to return to Europe."—Letters from Madras, 92.
 * 1865.—"You may perhaps remember how often in times past we debated, with a seriousness becoming the gravity of the subject, what article of food we should each of us respectively indulge in, on our first arrival at home."—Waring, Tropical Resident, 154.
 * So also in the West Indies: 1830.—"... 'Oh, your cousin Mary, I forgot—fine girl, Tom—may do for you at home yonder' (all Creoles speak of England as home, although they may never have seen it)."—Tom Cringle, ed. 1863, 238.

Equinox ◑ 23:19, 14 September 2022 (UTC)