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单词 second home
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second home
second home n. a second dwelling-place owned or supported in addition to the principal home; a home from home; also figurative and attributive.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > place like or as good as home
home (away) from home1866
second home1883
spiritual home1915
1883 Queen Victoria Let. 12 Dec. in R. Fulford Beloved Mama (1981) 153 Italy seems to be a second home. I expect you will settle there some day.
1915 F. Hardy Let. 17 July in R. Gittings Older Hardy (1978) xiii. 167 A second home for the people I like, and who have been good to me.
1937 W. H. S. Smith Let. 10 July in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 79 The Saturday Club, which, since his wife's departure for England, is practically a second home to him.
1959 M. Gilbert Blood & Judgement xiii. 142 He was away from home a lot and..she began to think he'd set up a second home of his own somewhere.
1970 ‘E. Lathen’ Pick up Sticks (1971) x. 85 All this second-home building helps.
1980 Times 1 Aug. 13/7 Roll on the revolution when..we shall be entitled to substantial state pensions, preferential housing and second homes.
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