| home |
the place where a person or animal lives. [9 definitions] |
| homeland |
one's native country or region. |
| homeless |
having no home. [2 definitions] |
| homely |
not pretty or handsome; plain. [3 definitions] |
| homemade |
made at home rather than bought. |
| home page |
the main page of a Web site. A home page often has a table of contents and links to other parts of the Web page. |
| home plate |
a flat slab of hard rubber at which the batter stands in a baseball game. The base runner must touch home plate in order to score a run. |
| Homer |
a Greek poet who is thought to have lived around the eighth century B.C. |
| homer |
a home run in baseball or softball. |
| homeroom |
a classroom where students meet at the beginning of the school day for attendance and announcements. |
| home run |
a hit that allows the batter in a baseball game to touch all four bases and score a run. |
| homesick |
longing for one's home. |
| homespun |
made into cloth or spun into yarn at home. [3 definitions] |
| homestead |
a house and the land and buildings that are around it; a farm. [2 definitions] |
| hometown |
the town or city in which one was born or grew up, or any place that feels as if it is one's real home because of having lived there a long time. |
| homeward |
to or toward home. [2 definitions] |
| homework |
schoolwork that is to be done at home rather than at school. |
| hominy |
a food made of kernels of dried corn that are ground and then cooked with water. |
| homogenize |
to break up and blend the particles of fat in. |
| homograph |
a word that has the same spelling as another but a different meaning and history. Homographs are often pronounced differently from each other. In the sentence, "She shed a tear over the tear in her dress," the two words spelled "t-e-a-r" are homographs. |
| homonym |
a word that is pronounced and often spelled the same as another word, but has a different meaning. In the sentence, "She was mean to me, but she didn't mean it," the two instances of "mean" are homonyms. |