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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: To be at home on any subject (0.01977 detik)
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English → English (gcide) Definition: To be at home on any subject Home \Home\ (h[=o]m; 110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to OS. h[=e]m, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k["e]mas, and perh. to Gr. kw`mh village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr. ksh[=e]ma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. [root]20, 220.] 1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace. [1913 Webster] The disciples went away again to their own home. --John xx. 10. [1913 Webster] Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home. --Payne. [1913 Webster] 2. One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. ``Our old home [England].'' --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. [1913 Webster] He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. [1913 Webster] Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. [1913 Webster] Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. --Eccl. xii. 5. [1913 Webster] 6. (Baseball) The home base; as, he started for home. [1913 Webster] At home. (a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. To feel at home, to be at one's ease. To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home. Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile. [1913 Webster]

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