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The definitions of these two words are similar, as shown below.
house: a building in which a person or a family lives
home: a house or apartment where a person or a family lives
The main difference between them is that house is concrete. House refers to a building in which someone lives. In contrast, a home can refer either to a building or to any location that a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that belongs to her. A home can be a house or an apartment, but it could also be a tent, a boat, or an underground cave.
A home can even be something abstract, a place in your mind. When you say, “Let’s go home,” you are probably not talking simply about going to the physical structure where you live. You are talking about being in the special place where you feel most comfortable and that belongs to you.
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We use the noun house to refer to a building:
They’re building six new houses at the end of our road.
When we refer to being at someone’s house, we can leave out the word house and use at + possessive or at + the definite article + possessive:
We stayed overnight at Mike’s. (at Mike’s house)
We’re going to be at the Jacksons’ this evening. Want to come with us? (at the Jacksons’ house)
We use home in a more personal and emotional way to refer to where someone lives. The noun home does not usually refer to the building. We often use home with the preposition at:
It’s not very big but it’s my home.
Why don’t you phone her now? I think she’s at home.
When we talk about the building we live in, we use house not home:
Our dog stays in the house with us.
Not: Our dog stays in the home with us.
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We usually don’t use an article or other determiner with home unless we are talking about homes in general:
A lot of energy can be saved in the home by making small changes such as turning off lights. (energy can be saved in all homes)
We use home as an adverb with verbs of movement such as get, go, come, arrive, travel, drive. We don’t use to:
I’m going home now. I’m really tired.
Not: I’m going to home now.
Would you like me to drive you home?
Not: Would you like me to drive you to home?
Home can be used as a countable noun to refer to the place where people or animals live and are cared for by people who are not their relatives or owners:
There’s a home for the elderly at the end of our street.
We got our dog, Scotty, from the local dogs’ home.
I hope this helps.
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By Ferallizaaw (Tutor of Speakout Prabumulih)
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