- For other uses, see Home (disambiguation).
Home is a place where a person lives, perhaps spends much of the time, or where a person is comfortable to be. While a house (or other residential dwelling) is often referred to as a home, the concept of "home" is broader than a physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge and safety, where worldly cares fade, with things and people one loves becoming the focus.
It can be the place of one's birth, where you grew up, or maybe your first apartment or house.
The word "home" is used for various residential institutions which aspire to create a home-like atmosphere, such as a retirement home, a nursing home, a 'group home' (an orphanage for children or a retirement home for adults), a foster home, etc.
Sayings about a home include:
- "Home is where you hang your hat."
- "Home is where the heart is."
- "Love makes a house a home."
- "There's no place like home." (Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz)
- "You can't go home again." (Tom Wolfe)
- "An Englishman's home is his castle"
- "Home is more than a house. Its a combination of all the materials, talents, skills, activities, feelings and hopes which a group of people draws upon to build itself into a family."
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