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The one to call her home is her mother, but she is nowhere to be found and a scary stranger greets the girl upon her arrival.

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  1. noun A place where one lives; a residence.
  2. noun The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
  3. noun A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
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  • One must have a home, you see, to keep one's books in and one's spring-sofas in; but the charm of a home is a home to come back to . —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • Using the power of the sun to heat water for your home is an efficient, emission-free, renewable source of energy that can save you money on your monthly electric bills. —  East Valley Tribune - Today's Top Stories
  • And I'm willing to lobby the government to ensure that housing remains part of the social infrastructure and that a home is a home, not an investment. —  Fool.co.uk - Headlines
  • The only source of heat for his home is a wood stove. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • Submitting a bid for a home is a tricky process that requires both patience and knowledge of the market. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hām; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English home, hoom, hom, ham, from Anglo-Saxon hām, a home, dwelling, = Old Saxon OFries. hēm = Middle Dutch heym, home, dwelling, D. only in comp. heimelijk, private, secret (= English homely), = Old High German Middle High German G. heim = Icelandic heimr, an abode, village, heima, home, = Swedish hem = Danish hjem, home, = Gothic (Moesogothic) haims, a village (the sense ‘home’ being approached in the deriv. adjectives ana-haims, present, ‘at home,’ and afhaims, absent, ‘from home’), = Lithuanian kemas = Greek κώμη (for *Κώμη?), a village (see comic, comedy), = Sanskrit ksema, abode, place of rest, security, for *skema, from √ *ski, ksi, dwell. The Old Teutonic sense of ‘village’ is preserved in many place-names in -ham, Anglo-Saxon-hām, G. -heim, etc., as Birmingham, Cheltenham, Nottingham, G. Hochheim, Mannheim, etc.; also in diminutive hamlet, q. v.
  2. from Middle English home, hoom, hom, from Anglo-Saxon hām, adverb, properly the accusative used adverbially, as also in G. Danish Swedish, etc.: see home, n.
  3. from home, n. or adv.
 

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