A home is a place that people think of as where they belong. They may work at home or somewhere else, but if you asked someone where they lived, they would tell you about their home.

The home is partly a building, like an apartment or a house, but it is also connected to the area in which the building is found. That is why people talk about homeland, meaning the region in which their home is placed, together with the other people, their history and culture.

In this way a home is more than just a place to sleep. A home is a place where people feel comfortable and where they fit in. That is why people often say "I feel at home here".

The idea of a home has changed down the ages. Homes used to be places where many people lived together. Even wealthy people had servants who all lived in the same room (called a hall house). In Tudor times, new kinds of furniture (proper beds) and more wealth meant that the homes were divided into upstairs and downstairs, and families went much more private. The wealthy then had mansions where servants lived in rooms at the top of the house, and the lower rooms were each used for a different purpose. This became especially developed in Victorian times of the late 19th century.