Meaning of дом | Babel Free

Definitions

1. home, house, abode (a dwelling)
   inanimate, masculine, uncountable
2. building (a closed structure with walls and a roof)
   inanimate, masculine
3. home (one’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt)
   inanimate, masculine, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“When the day broke he was shut up in his rooms again. He had meant to go away to-day, but clung to this tie in the house as the last and only thing left to him. He would go to-morrow.”

“Дзе ж мой дом, дзе мой люд?”

Where is my home, where are my people?

“— Ну, штож? добра жыць у Амэрыцэ, а ўсёж такі да дому захацелася? Рад, што вярнуўся да хаты?”

"Well, howdy? It's good to live in America, but you still missed your homeland after all, didn't you? Are you glad to be back home?"

“I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving;”

“There was a labyrinth of scaffolding raised all round the house, from the basement to the roof.”

“Turn we our eyes upon two homes; not lying side by side, but wide apart, though both within easy range and reach of the great city of London.”

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