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Home can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb.
home used as a noun:
- One's own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
"The disciples went away again to their own home. —John xx. 10." - One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
"Our old home England. — Nathaniel Hawthorne." - The place where a person was raised. Childhood or parental home. Home of one's parents or guardian.
"I left home last year." - The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
"He entered in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. — George Gordon Byron." - The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
"the home of the pine." - A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
"Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. —Eccl. xii." - In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's home page
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
home used as a verb:
- (usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
"The missile was able to home on the target."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
home used as an adjective:
- Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
- Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
home used as an adverb:
- To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
- Close; closely.
"How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. —South." - To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
"to drive a nail home" - In one's place of residence; at home
"The lights are on, but nobody's home." - Into the goal.
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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- Noun usage: The disciples went away again to their own home. —John xx. 10.
- Noun usage: Home is the sacred refuge of our life. — John Dryden.
- Noun usage: Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There’s no place like home. — John Howard Payne.
- Noun usage: Our old home England. — Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Noun usage: I left home last year.
- Noun usage: He entered in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. — George Gordon Byron.
- Noun usage: the home of the pine.
- Noun usage: Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. — Alfred Tennyson.
- Noun usage: Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. — Matthew Prior.
- Noun usage: Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. —Eccl. xii.
- Verb usage: The missile was able to home on the target.
- Adverb usage: How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. —South.
- Adverb usage: They come home to men’s business and bosoms. —Bacon.
- Adverb usage: to drive a nail home
- Adverb usage: to ram a cartridge home
- Adverb usage: Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. —Shak.
- Adverb usage: The lights are on, but nobody's home.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of home are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of home, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).