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Word family  noun home homelessness adjective homeless homely homeward verb home adverb home homewards

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ldoce_160_ghome1 /həʊm $ hoʊm/ ●●● S1 W1 noun  1  place where you live 居住的地方 [countable, uncountable]HOME the house, apartment, or place where you live 家，住所，窝 They have a beautiful home in California. 他们在加州有个美丽的家。 Good luck in your new home! 祝你在新家一切顺利！at home Last night we stayed at home and watched TV. 昨晚我们待在家里看电视。away from home He was spending more and more time away from home. 他不在家的时间越来越多。work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at a company office) 在家办公 A family of birds made their home (=started living) under the roof. 一窝鸟在屋顶下安了家。 →5  See picture of stable 马厩, hutch 兔笼, kennel 狗窝 ... →4  See picture of 见图 home2  family 家庭 [countable, uncountable]HOME the place where a child lived with his or her family 家，家庭 Jack left home when he was 16. 杰克16岁离开家独立生活。 Were you still living at home (=with your parents)? 那时你仍和父母住在一起吗？ Carrie moved out of the family home a year ago. 卡丽一年前搬离了父母的家。3  where you came from/belong 家,家乡 [countable, uncountable]HOME the place where you came from or where you usually live, especially when this is the place where you feel happy and comfortable 〔使人感到亲切、愉快的〕家，家乡，故乡 She was born in Italy, but she’s made Charleston her home. 她出生在意大利，但在查尔斯顿安了家。back home The folks back home don’t really understand what life is like here. 家乡的父老乡亲并不了解这里的生活是怎样的。4  your country 本国COUNTRY/NATION [uncountable] the country where you live, as opposed to foreign countries 本国，国内at home auto sales at home and abroad 国内外市场的汽车销量back home He’s been travelling, but he’s kept up with what’s going on back home. 他一直在旅行，不过他一直关注着国内发生的事情。5  be/feel at home a) USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOto feel comfortable in a place or with a person 舒适自在，不拘束be/feel at home in/with I’m already feeling at home in the new apartment. 我在新公寓里已经习惯了。 After a while we began to feel at home with each other. 过了一会儿我们就无拘无束起来。 b) USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOto feel happy or confident about doing or using something 驾轻就熟，运用自如be/feel at home with/in Practise using the camera until you feel quite at home with it. 练习练习怎么用这台录像机，直到熟练为止。6  property 财产 [countable]HOME a house, apartment etc considered as property which you can buy or sell 住宅，住房 Attractive modern homes for sale. 漂亮的现代化住宅待售。7  for taking care of SB 用于照料某人 [countable]HOME a place where people who are very old or sick, or children who have no family, are looked after 〔老人或病人的〕疗养所；〔儿童的〕养育院 an old people’s home 老人院 I could never put Dad into a home. 我决不会把爸爸送进养老院。 → children's home, nursing home, rest home8  make yourself at home spokenRELAXED used to tell someone who is visiting you that they should relax 请随便，别拘礼〔招呼客人时说〕 Sit down and make yourself at home. 请坐，别客气。9  make somebody feel at home RELAXEDto make someone feel relaxed by being friendly towards them 使某人感到宾至如归 We like to make our customers feel at home. 我们希望给客人宾至如归的感觉。10  the home of something a) INVENTthe place where something was first discovered, made, or developed 某事物的发祥地，某事物的发源地 America is the home of baseball. 美国是棒球的发源地。 b) PLACEthe place where a plant or animal grows or lives 〔植物或动物的〕产地，生长[栖息]地 India is the home of elephants and tigers. 印度出产大象和老虎。11  SPORTS TEAM 运动队at home DSif a sports team plays at home, they play at their own sports field 〔球队〕在主场〔比赛〕 OPP awayat home to Birmingham Bullets are at home to Kingston. 伯明翰子弹队在主场与金斯顿队对阵。12. home from home British English, home away from home American EnglishHOMECOMFORTABLE a place that you think is as pleasant and comfortable as your own house 像家一样舒适自在的地方13. home sweet home COMFORTABLEused to say how nice it is to be in your own home 可爱的家〔表示在家里愉悦的心情〕14. dogs’/cats’ home British EnglishDHP a place where animals with no owners are looked after 流浪狗/猫之家，流浪狗/猫收容所15  find a home for something British EnglishPUT to find a place where something can be kept 找地方安置某物 Can you find a home for the piano? 你能找个地方放钢琴吗？16. what’s that when it’s at home? British English spokenEXPLAIN used humorously to ask what a long or unusual word means 说白了是什么意思？〔幽默用法，询问长的或不常用单词的意思〕17. games 体育比赛 [uncountable]DG a place in some games or sports which a player must try to reach in order to win a point 终点；目标；本垒 → home plate, home runn COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2ADJECTIVES/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.somebody’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 homeFlood victims were offered temporary homes.verbslive 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. THESAURUShome the house, apartment, or place where you live 家，住所More and more people are working from home. 越来越多的人在家办公。It was past midnight by the time I got home. 我到家时已过午夜。house a building that someone lives in, especially a building intended for one person, couple, or family 房屋，住宅Shall we meet at your house? 在你家碰头好吗？Have you seen Dave’s new house – it’s huge! 你见过戴夫的新房子吗——好大啊！place spoken informal the house, apartment, or room where someone lives 家，住处We went to Sara’s place after the movie. 看完电影我们去了萨拉家。nHe’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 〔尤指大型的或官员的〕住宅，官邸The prime minister’s official residence is 10 Downing Street. 首相官邸在唐宁街10号。nHis 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 度假别墅，度假屋They bought a luxury holiday home in Spain. 他们在西班牙买了一幢豪华的度假别墅。

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home• Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue.• I never wanted to put my mother in a home.• It took us about ten years to think of Atlanta as home.• In fact, he finds that he is able to get a great deal of work done at home on these days.• To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home.• Buying your first home is a very important step.• She was born in Italy, but she's made Charleston her home.• Her home, she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.• I've lived in Madrid for many years, and it feels like home to me now.• They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.• Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.• The restaurant isn't far from our home, so it's convenient.• People like to feel secure in their own homes.• They grew up in a children's home in Ohio.• It is the home of that most Freudian of plants, the coco-de-mer.• The tax rate depends on when the home was purchased.• They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney.• And owners note a perceptible increase in door-hangers, fliers and other pleas from agents to put their homes up for sale.• Their homes are mobile in name only.• You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.at home• The Jets lost 6-3 at home to New England.• Earlier in the century it was normal for women to have their babies at home.• Sales of electrical goods have increased, both at home and abroad.• I spent the evening at home watching TV.• Shocked by the events at home, the president cut short his trip to Europe.• Darren still lives at home with his parents.• I think she still lives at home with her parents.• The good thing about my job is that I can often work at home.left home• Then he got a job selling tickets on the railways, and left home.• His fingers were already tingling. 17 David knew it would be difficult to park in Soho and had left home early.• When Lombardy left home about 8 a.m., the detective followed and alerted an officer in a patrol car.• Born to godly parents, Mel left home at fifteen and joined the Navy.• Anguished Bernadette spoke of her ordeal since Mr Onanuga left home 16 days ago.• He seemed to recover considerably after Paheri left home.• She left home early in the morning and often returned late at night.• He probably felt the same, since his sister left home just as he was beginning to get to know her.made ... home• After the Bombecks made Arizona their home, many local charities benefited from their generosity as well as their presence at fund-raisers.• I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home.• In spite of his frustrations, though, he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem.• Slowing to seventy, he made his way home.• One school is building an artifical otter holt to provide them with a ready made home.• She pulled off her hat, she made herself at home.• Local folk tales made it the home of mythical monsters.• I paid the tab, and we made our way home.back home• He's glad to be back home.• She had graduated from a Lutheran Bible college back home, and at one time she had seriously considered becoming a nun.• He would tell Odysseus how to get back home.• I was hoping there was, cos it's about time I got back home - it's getting pretty late.• They are moving back home to Arizona, back home to Oregon, back home to Tennessee.• The Plot Every day, Johnny took his three goats to pasture and then back home.• He was back home, showered, changed and in bed by eleven forty-five.• A fantasy, but a lovely one, and one that she would miss when she went back home.home2 ●●● S1 W1 adverb  1  HOMEto or at the place where you live 到家，回家；在家 Is Sue home from work yet? 休下班回到家了吗？bring/take somebody/something home They brought the baby home from the hospital on Friday. 他们周五把孩子从医院接回了家。 We stayed home last night. 我们昨晚待在家里。 I’m going home now. See you tomorrow. 我现在要回家了，明天见。come/get/reach etc home (=arrive at your home) 回到家 It was midnight by the time we got home. 我们到家时已经半夜了。 What time are you coming home? 你什么时候回家来？5 ► 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). home 作副词用时，它的前面不用 ‘at’, ‘to’ 等介词: Then we went home (不说 went at home). 然后我们就回家了。 | He returned home (不说 returned to home). 他回到了家。2  take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc EARNto earn a certain amount of money after tax has been taken off 〔税后〕挣得每周120英镑/每月600美元等 The average worker takes home around $300 a week. 普通工人每周的税后净收入约为300美元。3  hit/drive/hammer etc something home a) UNDERSTANDto make sure that someone understands what you mean by saying it in an extremely direct and determined way 直接明确阐述某事〔使人充分理解〕 We really need to drive this message home. 我们确实需要明确表达这一信息。 b) TIGHTto hit or push something firmly into the correct position 将某物敲/推/锤击等至合适的位置4  bring something home to somebody/come home to somebody REALIZEto make you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is 使某人充分意识到某事〔的严重性、难度或危险性〕 The episode has brought home to me the pointlessness of this war. 这段经历让我充分意识到这场战争是毫无意义的。5  hit/strike home if a remark, situation, or experience hits home, it makes you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is 〔言语等〕正中要害；〔形势、经历〕使人豁然省悟 She could see that her remark had hit home. 她看得出她说中了要害。6. be home and dry British English informalSUCCEED IN DOING something to have succeeded in doing something 大功告成，达到目的7  be home free American English informalSUCCEED IN DOING something to have succeeded in doing the most difficult part of something 成功完成最困难的部分 If I last five years with no symptoms, I’ll be home free. 如果五年不出现症状，我就没事。 → close to home at close2(19)n GRAMMAR: Patterns with home• You go home, come home, or get home: We all went home.I wish he’d come home.What time did you get home? ✗Don’t say: We all went to home. | I wish he’d come to home. | What time did you get to home?• You go back home or come back home: Why don’t you go back home and rest? ✗Don’t say: back to home

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home• He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home.• Dreamer placed Tallis on the snow, facing south, facing home.• Extra ferries are needed to bring them back home.• The day of the trial, I stayed home.• Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?• She herself went home for the night.• And then he blagged a twin-engined Squirrel helicopter to take him home from a rugby match.• You can take the laptop home with you if you like.stayed home• The day of the trial, I stayed home.• Her remark that she could always have stayed home and made cookies has discomfited Republicans, not least Barbara Bush.• Many sympathisers stayed home at the last election, no longer fearing that Jose• The next day, she stayed home from work, something she rarely did, pleading illness.• U2's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home - preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead.• One of the last nights, Amelia begged off going to a party and stayed home, so Toot stayed home too.• I stayed home so we'd have time this evening.

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home3 ●●● W3 adjective [only before noun]  1  HOMErelating to or belonging to your home or family 家的，家庭的home address/number (=the address or telephone number of your house) 住宅地址/电话号码 These children need a proper home life. 这些孩子需要正常的家庭生活。2  HOMEdone at home or intended for use in a home 在家做的；家用的 good old-fashioned home cooking 美味的传统家常菜 a home computer 家用电脑3  DSplayed or playing at a team’s own sports field, rather than an opponent’s field 在主场进行的home team/game/crowd/club etc The home team took the lead after 25 minutes. 25分钟以后主队领先。4  COUNTRY/NATIONrelating to a particular country, as opposed to foreign countries 本国的，国内的 SYN domestic The meat was destined for the home market. 这些肉供应国内市场。

Examples from the Corpus

home• home appliances• The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.• Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.• a home gamehome address/number• She hesitated by the telephone, then dialled Miguel's home number.• The Department of Correction, in a blunder Ryan shakes her head over still, inadvertently gave Carter her home address.• I made a note of Mahoney's home address and returned the paper to the waste basket.• He gave Wynne his home number and told him to call if he could help.• A graduation program from 1930 lists the now world-famed cook as Julia McWilliams, her home address as Pasadena.• It is called a synonym, and will overflow from its natural home address because that is already full.• Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical, however.• Like many, Martin had lied about his home address in order to get into a school in a better neighborhood.home cooking• Dear Skid: Ursula is a big believer in making the man come to the kitchen if he wants home cooking.• The adjacent Gelli Farm Restaurant offers a high cuisine with local produce and home cooking.• Fine home cooking and all the other special comforts you would expect in this beautifully restored home.• Like fried chicken, potpie symbolizes home cooking and comfort food, she said.• Good home cooking is served and fresh local and garden produce are used.• Breakfast is continental style and dinners are tasty home cooking with a choice of menu.• Excellent home cooking with choice of menu.home team/game/crowd/club etc• This is the third consecutive blackout for the Raiders and the eighth in their last 12 home games.• This is where we can make up some ground and then come back and start winning the home games again.• A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924-25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker.• Every home game has been sold out to season ticket-holders since 1960.• Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years!• The opening home game is against Rome on April 16.• I think in that situation the home crowd's support was of great value to the team.• David takes him to one of the home games, then briefs Jody by phone before the guy calls for a date.home4 ●○○ verb  1 home in on something phrasal verb a) TOWARDSto aim exactly at an object or place and move directly to it 对准并靠近〔某事物或地方〕 The bat can home in on insects using a kind of ‘radar’. 蝙蝠能凭借某种“雷达”准确找到并飞向昆虫。b) ATTENTIONto direct your efforts or attention towards a particular fault or problem 将注意力集中于〔某一缺陷或问题〕 He homed in on the one weak link in the argument. 他瞄准论据中的一个薄弱环节。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

home• Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.From Longman Business Dictionaryhomehome1 /həʊmhoʊm/ adjective [only before a noun] connected with or happening in the country where goods are produced, rather than foreign countriesSYN DOMESTICThe company faces very little competition in the home market.Home consumption of whisky has continued to decline.homehome2 adverb take/bring home £300 a week/$1200 a month etc to earn a particular amount of money after tax has been taken awayThese workers take home just £100 a week.Origin home1 Old English ham “village, home”

home1 noun →10-17
→n COLLOCATIONS1 →THESAURUS1home2 adverb →n GRAMMAR1home3 adjectivehome4 verbLDOCE OnlineChinese  

apartment, where Business house, or the place Corpus

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home¹ S1 W1 /həʊm $ hoʊm/ noun1.  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
     

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.
     

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.

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home² S1 W1 adverb1. 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)

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home³ 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.

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home⁴ verb
     
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.