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BRING HOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bring home mean?
• BRING HOME (verb)
The verb BRING HOME has 2 senses:
1. make understandable and clear
Familiarity information: BRING HOME used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make understandable and clear
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
This brings home my point
Hypernyms (to "bring home" is one way to...):
demo; demonstrate; exhibit; present; show (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Earn as a salary or wage
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
bring home; take home
Context example:
How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?
Hypernyms (to "bring home" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
It was the toy which he had promised to bring home.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall see and hear new things, get new ideas, and even if I haven't much time there, I shall bring home quantities of material for my rubbish.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning, and Mr. Collins having been in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was able to bring home the pleasing intelligence, of their appearing in very good health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the melancholy scene so lately gone through at Rosings.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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