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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A place where one lives; a residence.
• noun The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
• noun A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
• noun An environment offering security and happiness.
• noun A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.
• noun The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived for a long period.
• noun The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
• noun The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
• noun A headquarters; a home base.
• noun Baseball Home plate.
• noun Games Home base.
• noun An institution where people are cared for.
• noun The starting position of the cursor on a text-based computer display, usually in the upper left corner of the screen.
• noun A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list.
• adjective Of or relating to a home, especially to one's household or house.
• adjective Taking place in the home.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being a place of origin or headquarters.
• adjective Sports Relating to a team's sponsoring institution or to the place where it is franchised.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being the keys used as base positions for the fingers in touch-typing.
• adverb At, to, or toward the direction of home.
• adverb On or into the point at which something is directed.
• adverb To the center or heart of something; deeply.
• intransitive verb To go or return to one's residence or base of operations.
• intransitive verb To move or advance toward a target or goal.
• intransitive verb To focus the attention or make progress achieving an objective.
• intransitive verb To guide (a missile or aircraft) to a target.
• intransitive verb To arrange to have (an animal) placed in a home.
• intransitive verb To take (an animal) into one's home.
• idiom (at home) Available to receive visitors.
• idiom (at home) Comfortable and relaxed; at ease.
• idiom (at home) Feeling an easy competence and familiarity.
• idiom (home free) Out of jeopardy; assured of success.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To dwell; have a home; also (chiefly in the present participle), to go home instinctively, as a carrier-pigeon. See homing.
• To bring, carry, or send home: as, the homing of the harvest; to home a carrier-pigeon.
• To, toward, or at home, in any sense of that word.
• To the point; to the mark aimed at; so as to produce an intended effect; effectively; satisfactorily; closely: as, to strike home; to charge home; to speak home.
• noun A dwelling; the residence of a family or household; a seat of domestic life and interests; hence, one's abode; the house in which one has his fixed or usual residence, or which he regards as his definite dwelling-place.
• noun The place or region in which one lives; one's own locality or country.
• noun The place or region where some specified thing is most common, indigenous, or native; the seat or native habitat.
• noun An institute or establishment designed to afford the comforts of domestic life to the homeless, sick, or destitute: as, a sailors’ or soldiers’ home; a home for the aged.
• noun In games, the ultimate point to which a player runs, or to which effort is directed; the goal.
• noun Specifically— In base-ball, the space or base immediately in front of the batters’ position. See base-ball.
• noun In lacrosse, the position of a player who stands just in front of his opponents’ goal, and who tries to throw the ball through it; also, the player himself.
• noun In the position of being thoroughly familiar with a subject; conversant: as, to be at home in a science.
• noun In one's own country.