Meaning & use
home address
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Meaning
nouncountable
The street, number, town and postal code that identify where a person lives.
Grammar: Take an or the: write your home address; plural home addresses is used when talking about several people.
Patterns
- someone's home address
- give someone your home address
Please write your home address in the box at the top of the form.
The bank will send the new card to your home address.
I don't give out my home address to people I've only met online.
Word forms
| plural | home addresses |
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Common combinations
- give your home address
- Do not give your home address to strangers.
- enter your home address
- Enter your home address exactly as it appears on your bill.
- change of home address
- Send us a change of home address if you move.
- deliver to a home address
- We can only deliver to a home address, not a post office box.
- home address and phone number
- The application asks for your home address and phone number.
Synonyms and how they differ
- residential address
- Residential address is the more formal version, common on official documents.
- residence
- Residence can mean the building itself, whereas home address means only the location details.
- permanent address
- Permanent address stresses a long-term place of living, while a home address might be temporary.
- mailing address
- A mailing address is where letters are received and may be a box rather than where you live.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: home address or web address?
home address vs web address
A web address is the URL of a site, not the place where someone lives.
Practice
The form asks for a home address, so you should write ___.
Choose one answer.
A home address is where you live. The other choices are other kinds of details and would not answer the question.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “home address”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.