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Dictionary: at-home   (ət-hōm', ăt-)
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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1.  In one's own residence, town, or country. For example, Mary was not at home when I called, or Tourists in a foreign country often behave more rudely than they do at home. This idiom was first recorded in a ninth-century treatise.
2.  Ready to receive a visitor, as in We are always at home to our neighbor's children. This usage gave rise to the noun at-home, meaning a reception to which guests are invited on a specific day at specific hours (also see open house). [c. 1600]
3.  Also, at home with. Comfortable and familiar, as in Mary always makes us feel at home, or I've never been at home with his style of management. [Early 1500s] Also see at ease, def. 1.
4.  Also, at home with. Proficient, well-versed in, as in Young John is so much at home with numbers that he may well become a mathematician, or Chris is really at home in French. [Late 1700s]
5.  In team sports, playing on one's own field or in one's own town. For example, The Red Sox always do better at home than they do at away games.


WordNet: at home
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a reception held in your own home


The adjective at home has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: settled comfortably

Meaning #2: in your own home or country


The adverb at home has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (in sports) on the home team's field


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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more