bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
homer
home run | a base hit on which the batter scores a run |
refreshment
recreation | activity that refreshes and recreates, activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation, time for rest and refreshment by the pool, days of joyous recreation with his friends |
diversion
recreation | an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates, scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists, for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles, drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation |
| home game | a game played at home |
package tour
package holiday | a tour arranged by a travel agent, transportation and food and lodging are all provided at an inclusive price |
| home invasion | burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
harvest harvesting
harvest home | the gathering of a ripened crop |
| busman's holiday | a holiday where you do the same things you do at work |
| home banking | banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer) |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
funeral home
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral chapel
funeral church
funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
home nursing home
rest home | an institution where people are cared for, a home for the elderly |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
| home computer | a computer intended for use in the home |
| home court | (basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games |
| home-farm | a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment |
home plate
home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
home room
homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
home theater
home theatre | television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater |
mental hospital
psychiatric hospital
mental institution
institution mental home
insane asylum
asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
mobile home
manufactured home | a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing |
recreational facility
recreation facility | a public facility for recreation |
recreation room
rec room | a room equipped for informal entertaining |
soap scoop max
liquid ecstasy
grievous bodily harm
goop
Georgia home boy
easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
| stately home | a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
| home truth | an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself) |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
home page
homepage | the opening page of a web site |
| home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer |
tonic key
home key | the basic key in which a piece of music is written |
| home stand | a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court |
home fries
home-fried potatoes | sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp |
home brew
homebrew | an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home |
| home folk | folks from your own home town |
| broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
| foster home | a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) |
family household
house home
menage | a social unit living together, 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 |
| Home Office | the government department in charge of domestic affairs |
| home front | the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war |
| at home | a reception held in your own home |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Freddie Mac
FHLMC | a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages |
| home guard | a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere |
National Guard
home reserve | United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government, subject to call by either |
| Home Loan Bank | one of regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region |