Phrase guide

there's no place like home

proverb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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proverb

Meaning 1

One feels most comfortable at home.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Popularized by the 1823 song Home! Sweet Home!, in which the phrase was used as a refrain. Popularized again, more recently, in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Across languages

Translations

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: لَا مَكَان كَالْوَطَن (lā makān ka-l-waṭan) — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Catalan: la meva casa i la meva llar mil unces valen — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Catalan: val més el fum de casa meva que el foc de la teva — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Czech: všude dobře, doma nejlíp — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Danish: ude godt, men hjemme bedst — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Danish: øst vest, hjemme bedst — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Dutch: oost west, thuis best — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Faroese: úti er gott, heima er best — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Faroese: eyst í vest, heimstaðið best — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Finnish: poissa hyvä, kotona paras — one feels most comfortable at home
  • French: il n'y a pas de petit chez soi — one feels most comfortable at home
  • French: on n'est bien que chez soi — one feels most comfortable at home
  • German: nichts ist vergleichbar mit dem eigenen zu Hause — one feels most comfortable at home
  • German: Ost und West, daheim am best — one feels most comfortable at home
  • German: daheim ist daheim — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Greek: σπίτι μου, σπιτάκι μου και φτωχοκαλυβάκι μου (spíti mou, spitáki mou kai ftochokalyváki mou) — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Hungarian: mindenütt jó, de legjobb otthon — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Indonesian: rumahku surgaku — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Indonesian: rumahku istanaku — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Irish: níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Italian: dove si nasce, ogni erba pasce — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Jamaican Creole: nuh weh nuh betta dan yard — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Japanese: 我が家ほど良い場所はない (waga ie hodo yoi basho wa nai) — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Northern Kurdish: Şam şekir e lê welat şirîntir e — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Latin: nullus est locus domestica sede iucundior — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Luxembourgish: et ass néierens besser wéi doheem — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Norwegian: borte bra, men hjemme best — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Polish: wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Portuguese: não há lugar como nosso lar — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Romanian: nicăieri nu e ca acasă — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Russian: в гостя́х хорошо́, а до́ма лу́чше (v gostjáx xorošó, a dóma lúčše) — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Scottish Gaelic: is binn guth an eòin far an do rugadh e — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Scottish Gaelic: nach binn guth an eòin far na dh'fhàs e — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Serbo-Croatian: svugdje je lijepo, ali doma je najljepše — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Serbo-Croatian: svuda pođi, kući dođi — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Slovene: povsod je lepo, a doma je najlepše — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Spanish: mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Spanish: como en casa, en ningún sitio — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Swedish: borta bra men hemma bäst — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Turkish: insanın evi gibisi yok — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Vietnamese: ta về ta tắm ao ta, dù trong dù đục ao nhà vẫn hơn — one feels most comfortable at home
  • Welsh: does unman yn debyg i gartref — one feels most comfortable at home