home sweet home

English

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: hōm swēt hōm, IPA^(key): /həʊm swiːt həʊm/
(US) enPR: hōm swēt hōm, IPA^(key): /hoʊm swiːt hoʊm/
Audio (US) (file)

Phrase

home sweet home

(idiomatic) One's home, especially a nice, comfortable home.
(idiomatic) Expressing contentment or relief at residing in or returning to one's own home.
- 1892, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, chapter 1, in The Diary of a Nobody:
  After my work in the City, I like to be at home. What 's the good of a home, if you are never in it? "Home, Sweet Home," that's my motto.

Related terms

Sweet Home (place name)

Translations

Nice, comfortable home

Arabic: الْبَيْت السَّعِيد m (al-bayt as-saʕīd)
Catalan: llar, dolça llar
Esperanto: hejmon, dolĉan hejmon
Estonian: kodu armas kodu
Finnish: oma koti kullan kallis
French: on est bien à la maison, qu’on est bien chez soi
German: trautes Heim n
Greek: σπίτι μου, σπιτάκι μου (spíti mou, spitáki mou)
Hungarian: otthon, édes otthon
Indonesian: rumahku surgaku
Italian: casa, dolce casa
Japanese: ホーム・スイート・ホーム (hōmu suīto hōmu)
Malay: rumahku syurgaku
Navajo: doo lá dóʼ shighan da
Portuguese: lar, doce lar
Russian: дом, милый дом (dom, milyj dom)
Slovene: ljubo doma, kdor ga ima
Spanish: hogar, dulce hogar
Swedish: hem, ljuva hem

Further reading

“home sweet home”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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