home – English noun declension

English noun forms of home

Noun: home
Singularhome
Pluralhomes

Sample Sentences

  • And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home. [1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John xx:[10], folio clj, recto:]
  • Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife. [1808, John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden:]
  • Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. [1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet 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. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132:]
  • Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. [2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:]
  • 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. [2004, Jean Harrison, Home:]
  • Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.
  • He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home;[…] [1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III:]
  • You only live life one time / Thank God I'll never live alone / My heart will always have a home / Living with you [1977, Keith Barrow, “Precious”, in Keith Barrow:]
  • It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
  • a home for outcasts
  • a home for the blind
  • a veterans' home
  • Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
  • Our grandmama's moved into a home.
  • […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […] [1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5]
  • The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home". [2007 January 10, Leslie Feinberg, “1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism”, in Workers World:]
  • Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home. [1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:]
  • Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances? [1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 93:]
  • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. [1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
  • I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home. [1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home]
  • the home of the pine
  • […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […] [1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets]
  • Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there. [1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.:]
  • Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored. [2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:]
  • The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.

Etymology

1. 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.
2. Cognates
3. 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”)). See: Dutch Nouns 'heem', German Nouns 'Heim', Danish Nouns 'hjem', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'heim', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'heim', Swedish Nouns 'hem', Gothic Nouns '𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κώμη', Latin Nouns 'civis'.

Verbs referencing "home"

Italian Nouns home, German Nouns Heim, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns heim, Danish Nouns hjem, Latvian Nouns ciems, Latvian Nouns saime.