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home-loving

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Adj.1.home-loving - devoted to home duties and pleasures
domestic - of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"
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home-loving [ˈhəʊmˌlʌvɪŋ] ADJhogareƱo, casero
home-loving [ˈhəʊmˌlʌvɪŋ] adjaffezionato/a alla casa
home-loving [ˈhəʊmˌlʌvɪŋ] adjaffezionato/a alla casa


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For forty years Southey lived at Greta Hall, and from his letters we get the pleasantest picture of the home-loving, nonsense- loving "comical papa" who had kept the heart of a boy, even when his hair grew gray--
They are not naturally daring and enterprising, but home-loving and affectionate.
Possessing very distinctive traits of their own, they nevertheless took the general characteristics of the little community in which they dwelt; a town noted for its frugal, discreet, well-ordered, and home-loving inhabitants, as well as for the somewhat confined scope of its sympathies; but in which, be it said, there are odder individuals, and, now and then, stranger occurrences, than one meets with almost anywhere else.
 
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