(n.) One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
(n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
(n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
(n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
(n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
(n.) The home base; he started for home.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
(a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
(adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
(adv.) Close; closely.
(adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(6) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(7) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(9) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(10) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
(11) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
(12) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
(13) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(14) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(15) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(16) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(17) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(18) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(19) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.
Homespun
Definition:
(a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
(a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.
(n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
(n.) An unpolished, rustic person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(2) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(3) It is the kind of homespun talk that could win over voters, but they don't appear to be listening to her or McCain.
(4) The pastoral address ignored the culture wars and instead veered between piety, homespun advice and laughs – including a line about mothers-in-law.
(5) Hodgson, by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who , because: “I fear I have this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant , and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer.
(6) Labour's very accusation, though, illustrated the huge commercial power, translating surely into political influence, that has been built from a pastime as homespun as watching football on television.
(7) That’s a dog.” I tell him about my quest: a search for the perfect funky small American town, a place with a buzzing homespun coffee shop and a great little deli, a town with some youthful exuberance and a shared passion for the great outdoors – plus, of course, friendly bookshops such as his.
(8) Television host and opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak compared him to Batman for his reputation of fighting evildoers and called him a "strong Russian guy" in reference to his brawny physique and homespun charm.
(9) Using a homespun remedy favoured by demonstrators, the man treated his bloodshot eyes with a towel soaked in apple cider vinegar.
(10) By the time Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone kept breaking their promises to abolish the income tax (one of the few things they agreed on), the homespun capitalism of the 18th century had already given way to a more organised form of capitalism.
(11) With its cosy homespun charm, this is the perfect spot to finish the trek, but in the morning I have one more treat in store.
(12) Homespun values … Obama and Robinson Obama went on to quiz the novelist on her family and upbringing, and on the “certain set of homespun values of hard work and honesty and humility” held by her parents.
(13) "At first, I respected him for his homespun politics, his spit-and-sawdust grit and his passion," said Danczuk.
(14) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
(15) And then there was the opposition between the homespun, handcrafted vision of art for Morris and the bloated global money-laundering business of it, which many of those oligarchs have bought into.
(16) Building on what seems an uncontestable and homespun truth, he made the moral claim that because “every single pound of public money is private earning… what is morally wrong is [a] government spending money like it grows on trees”.
(17) But this reliance on homespun wisdom can also fuel a worryingly anti-intellectual streak in public life, a sense that empirical discovery and a spirit of inquiry are somehow to be sneered at.
(18) The rather homespun website set up by her parents had 80m visits in the first three months after her disappearance.
(19) And there's a plain, homespun quality about him that's reminiscent of that other great Jimmy, the patron saint of small-town American life: Jimmy Stewart.
(20) Everywhere you look, there are signs of homespun innovation, of the defiant brand of resilience that Cubans have shown repeatedly over a long history of oppression: Take away our fuel supply and, yes, we will go back to buggy whips and gallop past you in your rent-a-car on our pothole-riddled roads.