| 单词 | home |
| 释义 | home (once / 12 pages) 1nadjadvv 2n 3n 4n 5adv Home is where you live: your house, apartment, or condo. It's also the place we feel most comfortable, loved, and protected — where we most feel at home. Home is many things to many people. It's the place you live, and the places you love: people might feel at home in a bookstore, a park, or certain cities. Old people live in nursing homes, and baseball players try to reach home plate. Animal shelters find homes for pets. Most people feel safe and happy at home, even if it's not perfect. It’s easy to find somewhere to live, but it’s tough to make a real home. WORD FAMILYhome: homed, homeless, homelike, homes, homey, homing, homy+/homeless: homelessly, homelessness, homelesss/homey: homeyer, homier, homiest USAGE EXAMPLESKalamazoo, Mich., now sends nurses into homes to combat the city’s high rate of infant mortality. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Also called pneumococcus, this pathogen is the most common perpetrator of community-acquired pneumonia, which is pneumonia that people get outside hospitals and nursing homes. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “We held this team to 101 points on their home floor, and I thought our offense in that third quarter was the difference.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n where you live at a particular time deliver the package to my home he doesn't have a home to go to Syn|Hypo|Hyper place home away from home, home from home a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home abode, residence any address at which you dwell more than temporarily 2n the country or state or city where you live Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home his home is New Jersey Hyper location a point or extent in space 3n the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end Syn|Hyper base location a point or extent in space 4n an environment offering affection and security home is where the heart is he grew up in a good Christian home there's no place like home Hyper environment the totality of surrounding conditions 5n a social unit living together the teacher asked how many people made up his home Syn|Hypo|Hyper family, house, household, menage broken home a family in which the parents have separated or divorced conjugal family, nuclear familya family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner extended familya family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives foster familythe family of a fosterling foster homea household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) menage a troishousehold for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations social unit, unit an organization regarded as part of a larger social group 6n housing that someone is living in they raise money to provide homes for the homeless Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation Alhambra a fortified Moorish palace built near Granada by Muslim kings in the Middle Ages Lateran Palacea palace that served as the residence of the popes until the 14th century Tuileries Palacepalace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens Vatican Palacethe residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City Palace of Versaillesa palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles White Housethe government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States Buckingham Palacethe London residence of the British sovereign Mount Vernonthe former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river cliff dwelling a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff condo, condominiumone of the dwelling units in a condominium fixer-uppera house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price) fireside, hearthhome symbolized as a part of the fireplace hermitagethe abode of a hermit homesteaddwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land housea dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families lake dwelling, pile dwellingdwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages indian lodge, lodgeany of various Native American dwellings messuage(law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household semi-detached housea dwelling that is attached to something on only one side vacation homea dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation yurta circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing beach housea house built on or near a beach boarding house, boardinghousea private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests bungalow, cottagea small house with a single story cabina small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area chaleta Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style chapterhouse, frat house, fraternity housea house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity country housea house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country detached house, single dwellinga house that stands alone doll's house, dollhousea house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything duplex, duplex house, semidetached housea house with two units sharing a common wall farmhousehouse for a farmer and family gatehousea house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence guesthousea house separate from the main house; for housing guests haciendathe main house on a ranch or large estate hogana Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east hunting lodge, lodgea small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter lodging house, rooming housea house where rooms are rented maisonette, maisonnettea small house hall, manse, mansion, mansion house, residencea large and imposing house ranch housea one story house with a low pitched roof residencethe official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president) row house, town housea house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls safe housea house used as a hiding place or refuge by members of certain organizations saltboxa type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind adobe house, sod house, soddya house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses solar housea house designed to use solar radiation for heating; usually has large areas of glass in front of heat-absorbing materials teepee, tepee, tipia Native American tent; usually of conical shape tract houseone of many houses of similar design constructed together on a tract of land villadetached or semidetached suburban house wickiup, wikiupa lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States wigwama Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides housing, living accommodations, lodging structures collectively in which people are housed 7adj relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are my home town 8adj inside the country the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior Syn interior, internal, national domestic of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation 9adj used of your own ground a home game Ant away used of an opponent's ground 10adv at or to or in the direction of one's home or family He stays home on weekends after the game the children brought friends home for supper I'll be home tomorrow came riding home in style I hope you will come home for Christmas I'll take her home don't forget to write home 11v provide with, or send to, a home Hyper domiciliate, house, put up provide housing for 12v return home accurately from a long distance 2homing pigeons Hyper return go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before n place where something began and flourished 3the United States is the home of basketball Hyper beginning, origin, root, rootage, source the place where something begins, where it springs into being n an institution where people are cared for 4a home for the elderly Syn|Hyper nursing home, rest home institution an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated n (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score 5he ruled that the runner failed to touch home Syn|Hyper home base, home plate, plate bag, base a place that the runner must touch before scoring 1adv on or to the point aimed at the arrow struck home 2adv to the fullest extent; to the heart drove the nail home drove his point home his comments hit home |
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