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at home

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at-home (t-hm, t-)
n. also at home
An informal reception in one's home.
adj.
1. Being, occurring, or functioning in one's home: at-home workers; at-home care.
2. Designed for or appropriate for one's home: at-home fashions.
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Noun1.at home - a reception held in your own home
reception - a formal party of people; as after a wedding
Adv.1.at home - on the home team's field; "they played at home last night"
athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
2.at home - at, to, or toward the place where you reside; "he worked at home"


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They told me your father was at home again, and that was why I came, but it seems the gods are still keeping him back, for he is not dead yet not on the mainland.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
The memory of the merest trifle at home would please me, and I would think and think how nice things used to be at home.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
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