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flat, tenement, walk-up; penthouse, salon, suite; barracks, boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, lodgment; castle, estate, manor, mansion, palace, villa; farmhouse, grange, hacienda, homestead, ranch house; houseboat, mobile home, motor home, trailer; hermitage, manse, parsonage, vicarage; hovel, hut, shack

[4] country, fatherland, homeland, motherland, sod—more at COUNTRY

[6] habitat, niche, range, territory; also element, environment, environs, haunt, locality, milieu, neighborhood, setting, surroundings

2home verb homed; hom·ing 1 : to go or return home

2 : to proceed to or toward a source of radiated energy used as a guide

home·body noun : one whose life centers on home

home·boy noun 1 : a boy or man from one's neighborhood, hometown, or region

2 : a fellow member of a youth gang

3 : an inner-city youth

home·bred adjective : produced at home : INDIGENOUS

home·com·ing noun 1 : a return home

2 : an annual celebration for alumni at a college or university

home computer noun : a small inexpensive microcomputer

home economics noun : the theory and practice of homemaking

home·girl noun 1 : a girl or woman from one's neighborhood, hometown, or region

2 : a girl or woman who is a member of one's peer group

3 : an inner-city girl or woman

home·grown adjective 1 : grown domestically

2 : LOCAL, INDIGENOUS

home·land noun 1 : native land

2 : an area set aside to be a state for a people of a particular national, cultural, or racial origin

Synonyms

country, fatherland, home, motherland, sod—more at COUNTRY

1homeless adjective : having no home or permanent residence

2homeless noun plural : persons esp. in urban areas that have no home

home·ly adjective home·li·er; -est 1 : FAMILIAR

2 : unaffectedly natural

3 : lacking beauty or proportion

— home·li·ness noun

home·made adjective : made in the home, on the premises, or by one's own efforts

home·mak·er noun : one who manages a household esp. as a wife and mother

— home·mak·ing noun

ho·me·op·a·thy noun : a system of medical practice that treats disease esp. with minute doses of a remedy that would in healthy persons produce symptoms similar to those of the disease treated

— ho·meo·path noun

— ho·meo·path·ic adjective

ho·meo·sta·sis noun : the maintence of a relatively stable state of equilibrium between interrelated physiological, psychological, or social factors characteristic of an individual or group

— ho·meo·stat·ic adjective

home page noun : the page usu. encountered first at a Web site that usu. contains hyperlinks to the other pages of the site

home plate noun : a slab at the apex of a baseball diamond that a base runner must touch in order to score

hom·er noun : HOME RUN

— homer verb

home·room noun : a classroom where pupils report at the beginning of each school day

home run noun : a hit in baseball that enables the batter to go around all the bases and score a run

home·school verb : to teach school subjects to one's children at home

— home·school·er noun

home·sick adjective : longing for home and family while absent from them

— home·sick·ness noun

home·spun adjective 1 : spun or made at home; also : made of a loosely woven usu. woolen or linen fabric

2 : SIMPLE, HOMELY

1homestead noun : the home and land occupied by a family

2homestead verb : to acquire or settle on public land

home·stead·er noun : one who seeks, establishes, or possesses a homestead under a homestead law

Synonyms

colonist, frontiersman, pioneer, settler—more at FRONTIERSMAN

home·stretch noun 1 : the part of a racecourse between the last curve and the winning post

2 : a final stage (as of a project)

home theater noun : an entertainment system (as a television with surround sound and a DVD player) for the home

home video noun : prerecorded videocassettes or videodiscs for home viewing

1homeward or home·wards adverb : toward home

2homeward adjective : being or going toward home

home·work noun 1 : an assignment given a student