Synonyms of the word

home

• n. (heading) A dwelling.
• n. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or…
• n. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat;…
• n. (heading) A focus point.
• n. (US, slang) Shortened form of homeboy.
• n. (computing) Clipping of home directory.
• v. (usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
• adj. Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
• adj. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
• adv. to home.
• adv. in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
• adv. close; closely; to the center; deep.
• adv. (Britain, soccer) into the goal.
• adv. (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position.

abode

• n. (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
• n. (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
• n. (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of abide.
• n. (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous.

bag

• n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
• n. (informal) A handbag.
• n. A suitcase.
• n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
• n. One’s preference.
• n. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
• n. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
• n. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
• n. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure…
• n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…
• n. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
• n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
• n. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
• n. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
• v. To put into a bag.
• v. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
• v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
• v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
• v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
• v. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
• v. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
• v. To hang like an empty bag.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

base

• n. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
• n. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
• n. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
• n. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
• n. (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
• n. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
• n. (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
• n. (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus…
• n. Important areas in games and sports.
• n. (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
• n. (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
• n. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
• n. (geometry) The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid…
• n. (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. (heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
• n. (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
• n. (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
• n. (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
• n. (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
• n. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that…
• n. (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
• n. (music) Dated form of bass.
• n. (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
• n. (archaic) The housing of a horse.
• n. (historical, in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour)…
• n. (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
• n. (obsolete) An apron.
• n. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from…
• v. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
• v. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
• v. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
• adj. (obsolete) Low in height; short.
• adj. Low in place or position.
• adj. (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
• adj. (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
• adj. Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
• adj. (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
• adj. Designating those metals which are not classed as precious or noble.
• adj. Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
• adj. (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
• adj. Not classical or correct.
• adj. Obsolete form of bass.
• adj. (law) Not held by honourable service.
• n. (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
• acr. Alternative form of BASE.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

domestic

• adj. Of or relating to the home.
• adj. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
• adj. (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
• adj. Internal to a specific country.
• n. A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
• n. A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

domicile

• n. (formal) A home or residence.
• n. (law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited…
• v. To have a domicile in a particular place.

domiciliate

• v. (intransitive) To establish a permanent residence.
• v. (transitive) To establish a permanent residence for (someone).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To settle (oneself) into a mode of thinking or the like.

dwelling

• n. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
• v. present participle of dwell.

environment

• n. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
• n. The natural world or ecosystem.
• n. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
• n. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
• n. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
• n. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…
• n. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with…

family

• n. (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption);…
• n. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
• n. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon…
• n. (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing…
• n. (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
• n. Used attributively.
• adj. Suitable for children and adults.
• adj. Conservative, traditional.
• adj. (slang) Homosexual.

habitation

• n. (uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
• n. (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.

house

• n. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
• n. The people who live in a house; a household.
• n. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
• n. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or…
• n. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre,…
• n. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
• n. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a…
• n. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
• n. (figuratively) a place of rest or repose.
• n. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
• n. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
• n. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
• n. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
• n. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
• n. Lotto; bingo.
• n. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
• v. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
• v. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
• v. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
• v. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
• v. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
• v. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
• v. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
• v. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
• n. (music) House music.

household

• n. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.;…
• n. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
• adj. Belonging to the same house and family.
• adj. Of anything found in or having its origin in a home.

housing

• v. present participle of house.
• n. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
• n. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
• n. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
• n. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse…
• n. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
• n. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the…
• n. A niche for a statue.
• n. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
• n. (nautical) A houseline.

institution

• n. A custom or practice of a society or community.
• n. An organization similarly long established and respected, particularly one involved with education, public…
• n. The building or buildings which house such an organization.
• n. (informal) Other places or businesses similarly long established and respected.
• n. (informal) A person similarly long established in a place, position, or field.
• n. The act of instituting something.
• n. (obsolete) That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules.

interior

• adj. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
• adj. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
• n. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
• n. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
• n. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

internal

• adj. inside of something.
• adj. within the body.
• adj. concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
• adj. concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.

location

• n. A particular point or place in physical space.
• n. An act of locating.
• n. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
• n. (law) A leasing on rent.
• n. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
• n. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according…

lodging

• n. A place to live or lodge.
• n. Sleeping accommodation.
• n. (in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
• n. (agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged…
• v. present participle of lodge.

menage

• n. Alternative form of ménage.

national

• adj. Of or having to do with a nation.
• adj. (by extension) Of or having to do with a country (sovereign state).
• n. A subject of a nation.
• n. (usually in the plural) A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

plate

• n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
• n. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
• n. The contents of such a dish.
• n. A course at a meal.
• n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities.
• n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
• n. A vehicle license plate.
• n. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating.
• n. A material covered with such a layer.
• n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
• n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell,…
• n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
• n. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
• n. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page…
• n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which…
• n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
• n. (baseball) Home plate.
• n. (geology) A tectonic plate.
• n. (historical) Plate armour.
• n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
• n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis…
• n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
• n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
• n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
• n. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
• n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
• n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name,…
• n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of…
• n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
• n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
• n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
• n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally…
• n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
• n. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
• v. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
• v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
• v. To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (baseball) To score a run.
• v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
• n. Precious metal, especially silver.

residence

• n. The place where one lives; one's home.
• n. A building used as a home.
• n. The place where a corporation is established.
• n. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
• n. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
• n. The place where anything rests permanently.
• n. subsidence, as of a sediment.
• n. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

source

• n. The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
• n. Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which…
• n. A reporter's informant.
• n. (computing) Source code.
• n. (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• v. (chiefly US) To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
• v. (transitive) To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation…

unit

• n. (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
• n. The number one.
• n. Clipping of international unit.
• n. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
• n. (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
• n. (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table…
• n. (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
• n. (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used.…
• n. (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit…
• n. (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
• n. (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
• n. (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of…
• n. (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive…
• n. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
• n. (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
• n. (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment…
• n. (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
• adj. For each unit.
• adj. (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.