Synonyms: dwelling, dwelling house, domicile, habitation, home, abode
Definition: housing that someone is living in
Usage: he built a modest dwelling near the pond; they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Similar words: housing, living accommodations, lodging
Definition: structures collectively in which people are housed
Synonyms: home, nursing home, rest home
Definition: an institution where people are cared for
Usage: a home for the elderly
Similar words: institution
Definition: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
Synonyms: home, home base, home plate, plate
Definition: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Usage: he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
Definition: a place that the runner must touch before scoring
Usage: he scrambled to get back to the bag
Synonyms: home, house, household, family, menage
Definition: a social unit living together
Usage: he moved his family to Virginia; It was a good Christian household; I waited until the whole house was asleep; the teacher asked how many people made up his home
Similar words: unit, social unit
Definition: an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
Usage: the coach said the offensive unit did a good job; after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit
Synonyms: home
Definition: the country or state or city where you live
Usage: Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home; his home is New Jersey
Similar words: location
Definition: a point or extent in space
Definition: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Similar words: location
Definition: a point or extent in space
Definition: where you live at a particular time
Usage: deliver the package to my home; he doesn't have a home to go to; your place or mine?
Similar words: abode, residence
Definition: any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
Usage: a person can have several residences
Synonyms: home
Definition: place where something began and flourished
Usage: the United States is the home of basketball
Similar words: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin
Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Usage: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance; Jupiter was the origin of the radiation; Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River; communism's Russian root
Synonyms: home
Definition: an environment offering affection and security
Usage: home is where the heart is; he grew up in a good Christian home; there's no place like home
Similar words: environment
Definition: the totality of surrounding conditions
Usage: he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room
Synonyms: home
Definition: return home accurately from a long distance
Usage: homing pigeons
Similar words: return
Definition: go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
Usage: return to your native land; the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean
Synonyms: home
Definition: provide with, or send to, a home
Similar words: put up, domiciliate, house
Definition: provide housing for
Usage: The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town
Synonyms: interior, internal, home, national
Definition: inside the country
Usage: the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior; the nation's internal politics
Similar words: domestic
Definition: of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
Usage: domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction