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 |
home game | a game played at home |
country-dance country dancing contredanse contra danse contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
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 |
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 |
country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
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 |
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 |
country music country and western C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
cross country | a long race run over open country |
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 |
country people countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
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 |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
commonwealth country | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
developing country | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |