Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities that constitute a home; suggesting or resembling a home; familiar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
comfortable characteristics of ahome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable
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Examples
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There I saw a menu for the Straight Edge Kitchen, located at 7th Ave and 11th St, offering health food lovers 'a plain homelike meal. '
Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives 2004
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The impression was warmer than that of a hospital, but not "homelike" -wise, since this was the entrance to her surgery as well as to her home.
The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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But, like the grandfather's room, the place could not by any stretch of the imagination be called homelike, and to this fact
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A birth center is defined as a homelike facility within a health care system not attached to a hospital.
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A birth center is defined as a homelike facility within a health care system not attached to a hospital.
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That's just it -- just to the notch what I mean -- there's something kind of homelike in the name itself.
Round Anvil Rock A Romance Nancy Huston Banks
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It was a leisurely and kindly place -- "homelike," it was called -- and when the visitor had been taken through the State Asylum for the Insane and made to appreciate the view of the cemetery from a little hill, his host's duty as Baedeker was done.
The Turmoil 1915
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Susan had hit upon the word "homelike," the spot on earth that seemed to you the one best fitted for a home.
The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900
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Obama, who has said her first priority would be her family, talked to Bush about how she could make the presidential mansion "homelike" for her girls.
ABC News: ABCNews 2008
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Obama, who has said her first priority would be her family, talked to Bush about how she could make the presidential mansion "homelike" for her girls.
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