drive/hammer something home
home
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /həʊm/ us /hoʊm/

homeadjective[before noun] (RELATING TO HOME)

relating to the house, flat, etc. where someone lives: 家里的，居家的
home ownershipA lot of people favour home ownership over renting.
home improvementsHome improvements can increase the value of your home.
home maintenanceShe struggles to find money for home maintenance.
home pricesUSEstate agents say home prices are down about 5 percent.
done at home, or intended to be used at home: 家制的;家用的
home cookingI prefer simple home cooking to fancy food.
home computerYou can now get groceries delivered to your door via your home computer.
What's your home telephone number?
home-brewed beer家酿啤酒
relating to your family or your life at home: 家庭的，家庭生活的
home lifeHis home life is affecting his work.他的家庭生活影响了他的工作。
students who have a difficult home situation家庭困难的学生

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Home
abode
accommodation
bolthole
crib
domestically
fold
gaff
give something/someone houseroomphrase
habitation
hangout
harem
nest
non-domestic
non-home
pad
premises
rabbit hutch
residence
residential
roof

homeadjective[before noun] (COUNTRY)

connected with or done in your own country: 本国的
home countryHis books were a success in his home country, but failed to find an audience abroad.
home marketThe company should strengthen its position in the home market before it expands overseas.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
birthright citizenship
body politic
BRICS
citizen
compatriot
cross-national
denaturalize
domestic
dual
fatherland
internationalism
native
naturalization
naturalize
non-country
non-domestic
non-indigenous
non-national
overseas
stateless

homeadjective[before noun] (SPORTS)

relating to the place where a team is based and plays a lot of its games: 在主场比赛的
home teamThe home team always has an advantage
home sideUKThe game started badly for the home side.
home groundThe next match will be at their home ground.
home gameWe play our home games on Sundays.
home matchUKThere's just one home match remaining; the rest are all away.
home advantage (= the improved chance of success that playing at home gives to a team)主场优势
the home strip (= clothing worn by a team when they play a home match)主场队服

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competitions, & parts of competitions
bathing beauty
battle of witsidiom
be a game of two halvesidiom
beauty contest
beauty pageant
benefit match
bowl
championship
elimination tournament
kickabout
non-game
non-major
omnium
on your marks, get set, go!idiom
postgame
Rafferty's rules
round robin
starter
tournament
winning post

home | American Dictionary

home
noun[ C/U ]
us/hoʊm/

homenoun[C/U] (HOUSE)

a structure in which a person lives, esp. a house or apartment:
[ U ]Phone me at home after four o’clock.
[ C ]We have a country home and a city home.
A home also refers to the family that lives together there:
[ C ]a happy home
A home is also a place where a group of people live who need special care:
[ C ]a nursing home
Your home address is the address of the place where you live.

Note:

"House" is the more usual word for a building that one family lives in. The word "home" also refers to the life that goes on in that building.

homenoun[C/U] (ORIGIN)

a place of origin, or the place where a person belongs:
[ C ]Australia is the home of the kangaroo.
[ U ]I’ve lived here for two years, but it still doesn’t feel like home.
 at home
When you are at home in a place or situation, you are comfortable and relaxed there:
She’s beginning to feel at home in her new job.
Go into the living room and make yourself at home.

Idiom

home free
home
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/hoʊm/

homeadjective[not gradable] (IN HOUSE)

done or made in the place where you live:
home cooking
For a sports team, home refers to the city or the building or stadium where that team usually plays:
a home game
home
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/hoʊm/

homeadverb[not gradable] (TOWARD HOUSE)

to or toward the place where you live:
going home

home | Business English

home
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /həʊm/us
ECONOMICS
relating to your own country, not a foreign country:
The company decided it was over-dependent on the home market, and struck out abroad.
See also

domestic
used to describe the place where a company has its main offices or factories:
Previously, European airlines could only fly to the US from the carrier's home country.
COMMERCE
relating to the home, not business:
equipment for home use
home audio equipment
relating to the place where you live:
Please send the paperwork to my home address.
Home delivery is free if you spend more than £100.
home
adverb
uk /həʊm/us
 take home(alsobring home)
to earn a particular amount of money after tax has been subtracted from your pay:
She takes home $3000 per month.

See also

at-home

in-home

take-homenoun

Examples of home

home
Soldiers on leave and veterans returning home undoubtedly passed on their knowledge and experiences to the rest of the population.
For the most part, the returning soldiers were welcomed home warmly.
A group of 27 older adults in inpatient rehabilitation were interviewed during the programme and after returning home.
It is difficult to find a single refugee who thinks that they will be returning home any time in the near future.
The government has been reducing home-help services and experimenting with privatisation.
The data were collected at home parties, lunchtime breaks, and other private venues.
The mediastinal drain is removed on the morning after surgery and the patient is discharged home on the third day.
Other studies indicate that the quality of home and work roles intersect in important ways to predict well-being.
These limiting factors do not emerge in the accompanying scenario, which presents an unhurried and relatively straightforward assessment of a man living at home.
Large private providers may therefore deliver relatively high quality care, but this tends to be standardised across all their homes.
The philosophy of these homes is characterized by a very strong emphasis on training the staff.
Older infants may be more likely to have moved around to different foster homes and thus to have suffered more disruptions than younger infants.
The first option seems unlikely, especially given that all women were unlikely to have had paid employment outside the home.
As mentioned above, interrater reliability was checked during 20 home visits with two observers.
Sensitivity in the caregiver-infant interaction was assessed by behavior observations within the scope of home visits.
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Collocations withhome

home

These are words often used in combination with home.

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abandoned home
They drive up to a huge abandoned home, break in, and quickly make themselves at home.
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adoptive home
Note that age at testing was the sum of age at adoption and time in the adoptive home.
ancestral home
Moreover, unlike sons, married daughters (even if facing marital harassment) have no residence rights in the ancestral home.
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