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GO HOME

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return home

Example:

After the movie, we went home

Synonyms:

go home; head home

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "go home" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

But Jane was to go home with her, and at Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Already they say too much Curupuri live on this place, and they go home.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charles, in his real concern and good nature, would go home with her; there was no preventing him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

One other point: You will be handling a lot of assignments, and you may go home tuckered out each evening.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We will go home through the wood: that will be the shadiest way.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go home.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Many people go home the day after angioplasty, and are able to return to work within a week of coming home.

(Angioplasty, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Well, it is no doing of mine, Jim, and you must bear witness to that when we go home again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some other questions to ask are: • How long you will be in the hospital • What kind of supplies, equipment, and help you might need when you go home • When you can go back to work • When it is ok to start exercising again • Are they any other restrictions in your activities

(After Surgery, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research)

I certainly do not go home to-night, and, therefore, the carriage will not be out on my account; so you must make up your mind to what may happen, and take your things accordingly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)