Definitions

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  • noun The time when pupils go home at the end of the school day.

Etymologies

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home +‎ time

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Examples

  • When you own your own business, the divide between worktime and hometime is tenuous.

    daddy sleeps Dean Francis Alfar 2005

  • Well I am, and I'm almost proud that one of my close friends always leaves the office at 'hometime'.

    Planet TW 2010

  • She helped better our country and earned her hometime.

    White House's top health care spokeswoman resigning post 2010

  • The children have enjoyed the kids actvities and to Anjanette's joy and amazement Samuel has stayed on his own and cried when it was hometime!

    Archive 2009-02-01 Williamson Family Blog 2009

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Thompson had inspector removed from case in 1980'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The title is the one that appears on the front page of my hometime paper The Daily Times of Maryville TN.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Thompson had inspector removed from case in 1980 2007

  • The title is the one that appears on the front page of my hometime paper The Daily Times of Maryville TN.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Thompson had inspector removed from case in 1980 2007

  • Those of you who know me will be aware that it is my custom to put on my traditional Islamic garment, known as a Mah-kint-osh, and go down to the nearby primary school at hometime to inspect the Kuffar bints and some of the prettier boys.

    The Abomination Lionheart 2007

  • Once I was on a bus going into town during that most, well, lively of periods, hometime c.

    Dictionary corner II Alistair Myles 2006

  • Once I was on a bus going into town during that most, well, lively of periods, hometime c.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Alistair Myles 2006

  • For the little man, all this hometime has meant stretching his imagination even further.

    weapons of massdistraction › Fortress Of Hermitude 2003

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