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Difference between ”my home” and ”my house”?


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Beegee profile picture BeegeeMarch 2021
House refers to the building a person lives in. Home has more emotion tied to it: where a person is comfortable, has family or feels they belong.
  • Beegee profile picture BeegeeMarch 2021
    An English saying goes “Home is where the heart is”. It doesn’t even have to be concrete location
AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgMarch 2021
”House” is a specific type of structure/building where people can live - and is one of many different types of buildings/places that are lived in. Generally, for a house, the structure is permanent and there is a separate entrance from the road or street than that of other houses. Usually (but not always!), houses have more than one room.

A house is usually separated from other houses by at least a small piece of land, although there are some houses (especially in cities) which share walls at the side with other houses.

If you happen to live in such a building, then you can describe it as ”my house”. If the place where you live is a flat/apartment/tent/castle and so on then you would say ”it is my flat/apartment/tent/castle” (even if you don’t own it!).

”my home” is literally where you usually live. It could be a house, flat, castle, caravan and so on. If you don’t have a specific place where you usually live, you might be described as being ”homeless”.

Now, as mentioned by previous posters, ”home” can be used in an emotional/metaphorical manner. The key word for defining ”home” is ”usually” - which implies a permanent state. Often, if you are living somewhere but you don’t consider that place ”permanent”, you might use a phrase like ”it’s not my true home” or ”Townsville is my true home”. It’s an indication or a wish that at some point, you will move somewhere else which you consider to be ultimately the place where you permanently live.
wokive7709 profile picture wokive77092 settimane fa
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