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second home

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌsecond ˈhome noun  1 [countable] a house or apartment that you own as well as your main home and which you use, for example, for holidays 第二寓所,第二居所 town-dwellers who buy second homes in the countryside 在乡村购置第二居所的城里人2 [singular] a place where you spend a large amount of time but which is not where you live 第二故乡;第二个家 I love Italy. It’s my second home. 我喜欢意大利,它是我的第二故乡。 From then on, the hospital became my second home. 从那时起,医院就成了我的第二个家。
Examples from the Corpus
second homeNow that my parents had bought orie home, the decision to acquire a second home came easily.For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.From then on the hospital became my second home.And he began to spread out comfortably through the center, adopting it as a secure second home.No one answered there, nor at the second home I came to.
ˌsecond ˈhome nounChineseSyllable
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second home
ˌsecond ˈhome noun
1. [countable] a house or apartment that you own as well as your main home and which you use, for example, for holidays:
    town-dwellers who buy second homes in the countryside
2. [singular] a place where you spend a large amount of time but which is not where you live:
    I love Italy. It’s my second home.
    From then on, the hospital became my second home.


second homeBrE /ˌsekənd ˈhəʊm/ 🔊NAmE /ˌsekənd ˈhoʊm/ 🔊 noun [countable] a house or flat/apartment that sb owns as well as their main home and uses, for example, for holidays/vacations 别业;第二寓所;别墅 [singular] a place where sb lives and which they know as well as, and like as much as, their home 第二故乡;第二个家