Other forms: homes
Home is where you live and where you feel you belong. Go home, at home, a family home, working from home.
The grammar is unusual and worth learning as a fixed set: go home takes no preposition, at home takes at, and home on its own works as an adverb. A house is a building; a home is a house with people in it, and estate agents exploit that difference every day. Note home as an adjective — home cooking, a home game — and the compounds homesick, homeless and homework, none of which is guessable from the parts.
1nounhomeThe place where you live.~38%
“They have lived in the same home for forty years.”
2adverbplaceTo or at the place where you live.~2%
“She got home just after eight.”
3nouninstitutionAn institution where people are cared for.~15%
“He went into a home at eighty-nine.”
4adjectiveplayedPlayed at your own ground.~45%
“The home game is on Saturday.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 17 sentences found in the wild and placed 13 of them on a sense (4 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
home is a dwelling place.
Old English ham meant a village or an estate as much as a dwelling, and it survives in hundreds of place names ending in -ham. The narrowing to one household's dwelling happened in English and gives the word its warmth.
Middle English
hōm
English, today
home
From Middle English hōm. 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-. a doublet of heyem. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA