Meanings
plural homes away from home · alternative home from home
- idiomaticA place in which one is as comfortable as one's actual home.
I stayed in a lot of hotels in New York with the Dead and with Jerry's band, but the Navarro, more than any other, became our home away from home.
2004, Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN1 more example
Here's how you can create your own home away from home if you travel often: keep some of your favorite things that say home in a bag—like a backpack or travel bag—so you can take it with you.
2008, Susie Castillo, Confidence is Queen: The Four Keys to Ultimate Beauty Through Positive Thinking, Penguin, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian втори дом
- втори дом (vtori dom)place in which one is comfortable
Chinese Mandarin 賓至如歸 /宾至如归
- 賓至如歸 /宾至如归 (bīnzhìrúguī)place in which one is comfortable
Finnish kodikas paikka
- kodikas paikkaplace in which one is comfortable
German zweites Zuhause
- zweites Zuhauseplace in which one is comfortable
Hungarian második otthon
- második otthonplace in which one is comfortable
Polish drugi dom
- drugi domplace in which one is comfortable
Russian второ́й дом
- второ́й дом (vtorój dom)place in which one is comfortable
Swedish andra hem
- andra hemplace in which one is comfortable
Cite this entry
home away from home. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20away%20from%20home
“home away from home.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20away%20from%20home. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “home away from home,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20away%20from%20home.
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