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Homer   /hˈoʊmər/   Listen
Homer

noun
1.
A base hit on which the batter scores a run.  Synonym: home run.
2.
Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC).
3.
An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.  Synonym: kor.
4.
United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910).  Synonym: Winslow Homer.
5.
Pigeon trained to return home.  Synonym: homing pigeon.
verb
1.
Hit a home run.



Home

adjective
1.
Used of your own ground.
2.
Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are.
3.
Inside the country.  Synonyms: interior, internal, national.  "The nation's internal politics"



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"Homer" Quotes from Famous Books



... merely have a sensational trial, and hysterical scareheads in the newspapers.) Such were the ancient stories that move us all—sordid enough, be sure, when you push them hard for fact. But time and genius have glorified them. Not the deeds, but Homer and AEschylus and ...
— The River and I • John G. Neihardt

... the very foremost, most chivalrous, and at the same time the most injured country—Georgia. And invariably he cited lines from THE PANTHER'S SKIN of the Georgian poet Rustavelli; with assurances, that this poem was a thousand times above all of Shakespeare, multiplied by Homer. ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... Land. Land, it is true, like Epic Poems and even higher things, in such a trading world, has to be presented in the market for what it will bring, and as we say be 'sold:' but the notion of 'selling,' for certain bits of metal, the Iliad of Homer, how much more the Land of the World-Creator, is a ridiculous impossibility! We buy what is saleable of it; nothing more was ever buyable. Who can or could sell it to us? Properly speaking, the Land belongs to these two: To the Almighty God; and to all His Children ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle

... with feelings of the liveliest pain that we inform our readers of the death of the Reverend Homer Wilbur, A.M., which took place suddenly, by an apoplectic stroke, on the afternoon of Christmas day, 1862. Our venerable friend (for so we may venture to call him, though we never enjoyed the high privilege of his personal acquaintance) was in his eighty-fourth ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various

... the Great," said the Professor. "You would prefer the fame of Achilles to that of Homer, who told the story of his wrath and its direful consequences. I am afraid that I should hardly agree with you. Achilles was little better than a Choctaw brave. I won't quote Horace's line which characterizes him so admirably, ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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