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AT HOME WITH

Synonyms within Context: AT HOME WITH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Facility

At home with; quite at home; in one's element, in smooth water; skillful;accustomed.

Friendship

Friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.

Sociality

Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AT HOME WITH

Specialty definitions using "AT HOME WITH": SUFFRAGETTE. (references)

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Modern Usage: AT HOME WITH

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

If you're gonna jerk off, why don't you just do it at home with a moist towel? (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

If I wanted smoke blown up my ass, I'd be at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Thirty, living at home with his parents, his mother thought he was God's gift, he's Jewish, give it up! (Robin Williams: Live on Broadway; writing credit: Robin Williams)

Movie/TV Titles

An Evening at Home with Hitchy (1929)

At Home with... Fann Wong (2001)

Being at Home with Claude (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: AT HOME WITH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Companions (reference)

  • The Avocado Drive Zoo: At Home With My Family and the Creatures We'Ve Loved (reference)

  • A Chilling Story: How Things Cool Down (At Home With Science) (reference)

  • Dian Fossey: At Home With the Giant Gorillas (Gateway Greens Biography) (reference)

  • At Home With Gladys Knight : Her Personal Recipe for Living Well, Eating Right, and Loving Life (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: AT HOME WITH

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: AT HOME WITH

AuthorQuotation

Euripides

I hate a clever woman -- God forbid that I should ever have a wife at home with more than woman's wits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: AT HOME WITH

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Going out with him, staying at home with him, this was the great occupation of her life.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AT HOME WITH

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Biofeedback can be practiced at home with a portable monitor. (references)

The best place for the baby's growth and development is at home with the family. (references)

In some parts of the country, it can be done at home with the help of a partner, usually a family member or friend. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: AT HOME WITH

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We should promote responsibility by requiring young mothers to live at home with their parents or in other supervised settings and finish school, not by putting them and their children out on the street.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: AT HOME WITH

Language Translations for "AT HOME WITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

otthonosan érzi magát vkivel (to feel at home with sy), fesztelenül érzi magát vkivel (to feel at home with sy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay omehay ithway

   

Russian 

  

хорошо разбираться в (feel at home with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AT HOME WITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-i-m-o-t-t-w"

-5 letters: heath, mahoe, matte, miaow, motet, motte, tawie, theta, tithe, totem, towie, whamo, wheat, white, withe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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