home vs rest home

home

noun
  • A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. 

  • The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. 

  • Home plate. 

  • The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player. 

  • The landing page of a website; the site's homepage. 

  • One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family. 

  • The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. 

  • A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there. 

  • The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve. 

  • The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. 

  • One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. 

  • The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. 

  • The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. 

verb
  • To seek or aim for something. 

  • To return to its owner. 

adv
  • To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location 

  • To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly. 

  • At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home 

  • into the goal 

  • To the home page 

  • To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length 

  • To one's place of birth 

  • into the right, proper or stowed position 

adj
  • Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign 

  • Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). 

rest home

noun
  • A place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly and younger adults with physical disabilities. 

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