home
/hoʊm/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.81 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dwelling.
noun
A dwelling.
noun
A dwelling.
noun
A dwelling.
noun
A dwelling.
noun
A dwelling.
noun
A dwelling.
Example Sentences
- "And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home."
- "Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife."
- "Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home."
- "If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries."
- "Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge."
- "The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated."
Etymology
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hoʊm/
- British English: /həʊm/