farewell leave leave-taking parting | the act of departing politely, he disliked long farewells, he took his leave, parting is such sweet sorrow |
French leave | an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell) |
absence without leave unauthorized absence | unauthorized military absence |
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 |
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 |
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 |
leave | permission to do something, she was granted leave to speak |
ticket-of-leave | a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions |
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 |
Federal Home Loan Bank System | the central credit system for thrift institutions |