单词 | spiritual home |
释义 | > as lemmasspiritual home spiritual home n. a place, environment, or milieu to which a person feels a particular sense of connection or belonging; a place considered to be especially linked with or appropriate to a person or thing; cf. home n.1 4. ΘΚΠ 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 1915 Economist 9 Jan. 71/1 A statesman who describes Germany as ‘my spiritual home’..cannot safely be trusted with the control of affairs while we are engaged in an endeavour to rescue Germany from militarism. 1932 Week-End Rev. 7 May 586/1 If they write about it at all they make it clear that Europe is their spiritual home. 1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile xi. 186 He disliked Lord Ickenham, considering him a potty sort of feller whose spiritual home was a padded cell in some not too choosy lunatic asylum. 2003 Trail Nov. 56/1 The Isle of Skye—the spiritual home of UK mountaineering. < as lemmas |
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