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Definition of At home

1. Noun. A reception held in your own home.

2. Adverb. On the home team's field. "They played at home last night"

3. Adverb. At, to, or toward the place where you reside. "He worked at home"

Definition of At home

1. Adverb. In one's place of residence ¹

2. Adverb. (idiomatic) At ease, comfortable ¹

3. Adverb. In the home of one's parents. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of At Home

at first at first bluff at first blush at first glance at first sight at full speed at full stretch at full throttle at full tilt at gaze

at grade at gunpoint at hand at hand(p) at heart at home at issue at issue(a) at knifepoint at large

at large(ip) at large(p) at last at latter Lammas at least at leisure at leisure(p) at length at liberty(p) at loggerheads

Literary usage of At home

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"GLEGG at home. IN order to see Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at home, we must enter the town of St. Ogg's—that venerable town with the red fluted roofs and the broad ..."

2. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1901)
"M Blanchard and Pollard call'd in the Evg. slept : and H. at home. ... I walk'd out to Neighbor Hastings and Cuttings we din'd, slept and H at home. ..."

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