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Synonyms: dwelling, dwelling house, domicile, habitation, home, abode Definition: housing that someone is living in Usage: he built a modest dwelling near the pond; they raise money to provide homes for the homeless

Hypernyms: housing, living accommodations, lodging Definition: structures collectively in which people are housed

Synonyms: home, nursing home, rest home Definition: an institution where people are cared for Usage: a home for the elderly

Hypernyms: institution Definition: an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated

Synonyms: home, home base, home plate, plate Definition: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score Usage: he ruled that the runner failed to touch home

Hypernyms: bag, base Definition: a place that the runner must touch before scoring Usage: he scrambled to get back to the bag

Synonyms: home, house, household, family, menage Definition: a social unit living together Usage: he moved his family to Virginia; It was a good Christian household; I waited until the whole house was asleep; the teacher asked how many people made up his home

Hypernyms: unit, social unit Definition: an organization regarded as part of a larger social group Usage: the coach said the offensive unit did a good job; after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit

Synonyms: home Definition: the country or state or city where you live Usage: Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home; his home is New Jersey

Hypernyms: location Definition: a point or extent in space

Synonyms: home, base Definition: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

Hypernyms: location Definition: a point or extent in space

Synonyms: place, home Definition: where you live at a particular time Usage: deliver the package to my home; he doesn't have a home to go to; your place or mine?

Hypernyms: abode, residence Definition: any address at which you dwell more than temporarily Usage: a person can have several residences

Synonyms: home Definition: place where something began and flourished Usage: the United States is the home of basketball

Hypernyms: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being Usage: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance; Jupiter was the origin of the radiation; Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River; communism's Russian root

Synonyms: home Definition: return home accurately from a long distance Usage: homing pigeons

Hypernyms: return Definition: go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before Usage: return to your native land; the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean