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Home refers to a dwelling. It commonly describes one’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt, the locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat, and a focus point, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to a directory that contains a user's files, of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts, and personal, intimate, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Home as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played), to one's home, at or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home, to a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly, and into the goal, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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