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noun

1 where sb lives; where sb/sth comes from

ADJECTIVE

▪ family, marital (BrE), matrimonial (BrE), parental (BrE)

▪

It's unusual for young people over 25 to still live in the family home.

▪ boyhood, childhood

▪ adopted

▪ permanent, temporary

▪

a shelter for people with no permanent home

▪

a temporary home for the paintings

▪ current, former

▪ new, old

▪ good, happy, loving, safe, secure (BrE), stable

▪

These children badly need a stable home life.

▪

The garage provides a secure home for your car.

▪ broken

▪

children from a broken home (= whose parents are no longer together)

▪ single-parent, two-parent

▪

More and more children in the school are from single-parent homes.

▪ middle-class, working-class, etc.

▪ winter

▪

The mudflats offer a winter home to thousands of migrating swans.

▪ natural, spiritual

▪

The first time he visited New Orleans he knew he had found his spiritual home.

VERB + HOME

▪ be away from, get away from, leave

▪

He didn't leave home until he was 24.

▪ abandon, flee

▪

The people abandoned their homes and headed for the hills.

▪ find (sb/sth), give sb/sth

▪

Perhaps we could find a home for the kitten.

HOME + NOUN

▪ address, number

▪

Try calling me on my home number after six o'clock.

▪ background, conditions, environment, life, situation

▪

He came from an appalling home background.

▪

She had never had a stable home life.

▪ comforts (esp. BrE)

▪

She desperately missed her home comforts while camping.

▪ appliance

▪ cinema (BrE), entertainment, theater (AmE)

▪

the market for home entertainment systems

▪ movie, video

▪

We have a home movie of my dad teaching me to swim.

▪ use

▪

This computer is marketed for home use.

▪ computer

▪ user

▪

a laser printer aimed at the home user

▪ study

▪

The course is suitable for classroom or home study.

▪ work, worker, working (all esp. BrE)

▪

He supplements his income with part-time or home work.

▪ office

▪ care, nursing, visit

▪

The doctor was assaulted on a home visit.

▪ remedy, treatment

▪

I've tried all the home remedies for headaches without success.

▪ leave

▪

He went missing while on home leave from prison.

▪ consumption

▪

He claimed he had bought the cigarettes for home consumption.

PREPOSITION

▪ at home, away from home

▪

Her job means she's away from home for weeks at a time.

▪ back home, in your own home

▪ home of

▪

Andalusia, the home of flamenco

PHRASES

▪ a home away from home (AmE), a home from home (BrE)

▪

The hotel's friendly atmosphere makes it a real home (away) from home.

▪ home sweet home (= used to say how pleasant your home is), on the home front (= used to introduce domestic news)

▪

On the home front, the fuel crisis continues to worsen.

▪ welcome home

▪

The banner said ‘Welcome home, Dad!’

2 house, flat/apartment, etc.

ADJECTIVE

▪ beautiful, comfortable, nice

▪ luxurious, luxury, magnificent, palatial

▪ private

▪ new, new-build (BrE)

▪ custom (AmE)

▪ existing, old

▪ affordable, humble, modest

▪ dream

▪

They found their dream home on the shore of a lake.

▪ detached, semi-detached

▪ terrace, terraced (both BrE)

▪ modern, traditional, Victorian

▪ own

▪

They designed and built their own home.

▪ rental (AmE), rented

▪ council (BrE)

▪ ranch, tract (both AmE)

▪ country, seaside (esp. BrE), suburban, village (esp. BrE)

▪

He used to spend the summer painting at his country home.

▪ holiday (BrE), second, summer, vacation (AmE), weekend, winter

▪

They also have a weekend home in the Catskills.

▪ caravan (BrE), mobile (esp. AmE), motor (usually motorhome), trailer

▪

The storm wrecked the family's motorhome.

▪ ancestral, historic, stately (BrE)

▪

Priceless antique furniture was destroyed in the fire at the stately home.

VERB + HOME

▪ own

▪

He'd always dreamed of owning his own home.

▪ buy, purchase

▪ build

▪ decorate, furnish

▪ destroy

HOME + NOUN

▪ buyer, owner

▪ ownership

▪ builder

▪ building, construction

▪ sales

▪ improvement, maintenance, repairs

▪ extension (BrE)

▪ loan

▪ furnishings

▪ contents (BrE)

▪

Make sure you insure your home contents for an adequate amount.

▪ insurance

▪ security

▪

Fitting a burglar alarm is the most effective way to increase home security.

3 place that provides care for sb/sth

ADJECTIVE

▪ care (esp. BrE), children's, convalescent, foster, nursing, old people's (esp. BrE), residential (BrE), rest, retirement

▪ funeral

▪ purpose-built (BrE)

▪

Work begins this week on a purpose-built home for the city's homeless.

VERB + HOME

▪ run

▪

They run a retirement home for the elderly.

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adj.

Home is used with these nouns: ↑address, ↑affair, ↑appliance, ↑arena, ↑batsman, ↑birth, ↑buyer, ↑care, ↑city, ↑comfort, ↑computer, ↑confinement, ↑constituency, ↑construction, ↑consumption, ↑cook, ↑cooking, ↑country, ↑county, ↑crowd, ↑decoration, ↑delivery, ↑district, ↑electronics, ↑entertainment, ↑environment, ↑extension, ↑fan, ↑farm, ↑favourite, ↑fixture, ↑game, ↑gardener, ↑ground, ↑gym, ↑heating, ↑improvement, ↑inspection, ↑inspector, ↑insurance, ↑invasion, ↑kitchen, ↑leave, ↑life, ↑loan, ↑magazine, ↑maintenance, ↑market, ↑match, ↑mortgage, ↑movie, ↑number, ↑nursing, ↑owner, ↑ownership, ↑page, ↑phone, ↑port, ↑purchase, ↑recording, ↑refrigerator, ↑remedy, ↑renovation, ↑repair, ↑rule, ↑run, ↑safety, ↑sale, ↑schooling, ↑security, ↑series, ↑shopping, ↑side, ↑site, ↑stadium, ↑studio, ↑team, ↑territory, ↑theatre, ↑town, ↑truth, ↑turf, ↑use, ↑user, ↑venue, ↑video, ↑viewer, ↑village, ↑visit, ↑visitor, ↑water, ↑win

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adv.

Home is used with these verbs: ↑drive, ↑head, ↑order, ↑return, ↑ride, ↑run, ↑rush, ↑stay, ↑strike, ↑tap, ↑travel, ↑trudge, ↑walk