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View synonyms for homemade

homemade

[ hohm-meyd ]

adjective

  1. made make or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts:

    The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.

  2. made make in one's own country; domestic:

    I prefer a homemade car to one of those foreign models.

  3. made, make, contrived, or assembled by oneself; not professionally made make or done; amateurish:

    the plain look of homemade furniture.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of homemade1

First recorded in 1650–60; home + made
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Example Sentences

On heavy rotation in my kitchen are homemade harissa, chimichurri, and schug.

Hang on to yourpeanuts and homemade snacks, we’re not sure whenwe’ll ever be backSports are also a platform, if we don’t speakit’s our shame.

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So they used science to compare 10 types of homemade fabric masks to an N95 mask and to somewhat less protective surgical masks.

Some people insert filters made of various materials into homemade masks.

After a couple of weeks, I finally had a homemade, voice-controlled home-automation system in my room so that I could literally be Iron Man and tell Jarvis to switch off the lights and fans.

And that solution came from a homemade brew Branch and her sister created together.

The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.

A waiter brings out some fresh pretzels and homemade pork and wine sausages.

They filed past hoisting homemade flags, university flags, Mexican flags, flags that said “Ayotzi Vive.”

Her parents rebutted the accusations through homemade (though highly produced) videos which promote her exhibitions.

The cut (Fig. 64) makes this clear, and reminds one of an old-fashioned homemade gate.

The homemade siphon shown in the sketch consists of two rubber corks and a glass tube with a rubber hose connected to it.

He pulled the muddy socks off his shoeless foot, and drew on one of the warm, homemade affairs, and then the shoe.

I commend this homemade philosophy to all who may read this chapter.

She had lost the cute little homemade cap in the flurry, and her luxuriant hair hung loosely about her shoulder.

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