AT HOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at home mean? 

• AT HOME (noun)
  The noun AT HOME has 1 sense:

1. a reception held in your own home

  Familiarity information: AT HOME used as a noun is very rare.

• AT HOME (adverb)
  The adverb AT HOME has 2 senses:

1. on the home team's field

2. at, to, or toward the place where you reside

  Familiarity information: AT HOME used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT HOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reception held in your own home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("at home" is a kind of...):

reception (a formal party of people; as after a wedding)

• AT HOME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On the home team's field

Context example:

they played at home last night

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

At, to, or toward the place where you reside

Context example:

he worked at home

 Context examples 

“That is to say, our joint plans for him. I said myself, abroad or at home.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here, in Sierra Vista, which was the name of Judge Scott's place, White Fang quickly began to make himself at home.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At home I should undoubtedly have given vent to my anguish; but this new and elemental environment seemed to call for a savage repression.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At home in Exeter I always used to make up the time-tables, so as to be helpful to my husband.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could hardly wander.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a harness, such as he had seen the grooms put on the horses at home.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Meg stayed at home, lest she should infect the Kings, and kept house, feeling very anxious and a little guilty when she wrote letters in which no mention was made of Beth's illness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One afternoon, however, I got leave to stay at home, because I really had a cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Therefore, I brought them back, and on the first day at home I took one round to Spink's, and asked him to have it roughly cut and valued.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have no difficulties to contend with at home, no opposition, no caprice, no delays.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)