at home

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at home

comfortable and relaxed. She's beginning to feel at home in her new job. He is equally at home with people his own age or with his older brother's friends.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form make yourself at home: Sit down and make yourself at home while I get you some coffee.

See also: home

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They told me your father was at home again, and that was why I came, but it seems the gods are still keeping him back, for he is not dead yet not on the mainland. The Odyssey by Homer View in context The memory of the merest trifle at home would please me, and I would think and think how nice things used to be at home. Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day. Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context More results

References in classic literature

They told me your father was at home again, and that was why I came, but it seems the gods are still keeping him back, for he is not dead yet not on the mainland.

The Odyssey by Homer View in context

The memory of the merest trifle at home would please me, and I would think and think how nice things used to be at home.

Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.

Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context

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