How do you use the word "home" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "home": Why don't we go home? Make yourself at home.

Home Meaning

/həʊm/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA dwelling.

nounA dwelling., One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.

Sentence Examples

Why don't we go home?

Make yourself at home.

We returned home late last night after a long vacation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

place national internal

Antonyms:

away

CEFR Practice Quiz

After months away, she was thrilled to return to her cozy ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

After a long day at work, I am always very happy to return to the comfort of my own ____.

Word Origin & History

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”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

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