Definition of Home from home

1. Noun. A place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home.

Exact synonyms: Home Away From Home
Generic synonyms: Home, Place

Lexicographical Neighbors of Home From Home

home cinema
home cinemas
home computer
home computers
home country
home court
home ec
home economics
home equity
home equity credit
home equity loan
home field advantage
home folks
home free
home fries
home from home (current term)
home front
home game
home games
home ground
home guard
home health aides
home health nurse
home help
home in
home in on
home infusion therapy
home inspection
home inspector
home invasion

Literary usage of Home from home

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

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1896)
"Again, “The Rowdy-Dowdy Swells found this house a Home from Home, and count the landlady and her family among the dearest of their friends. ..."

2. Irish Poets and Novelists by Denis Oliver Crowley (1892)
"It is entitled THE CALL FROM HOME. From home and hearth and garden it resounds From chamber stairs, and all the old house bounds, And from our boyhood's old ..."

3. The Irish Quarterly Review (1855)
"... FROM HOME. From home, and hearth, and garden It resounds, From chamber, stair, and all the old house bounds, And from our boyhood's old play grounds. ..."

4. Mind and Voice: Principles and Methods in Vocal Training by Samuel Silas Curry (1910)
""Home, Home, from Home." He sigh'd, with sadden'd brow. Ask'dI then the peasant boy, " Whither thy way? " " Home, Home, my Home t " He cried in accents gay. ..."

5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1898)
"It is from home. From home—that spot to which his heart is tied with unseen cords. Perhaps he left home caring little for it. Perhaps harsh necessity drove ..."

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