The word _home_ comes into English through the Teutonic languages of northern Europe, carrying with it the multiple meanings of “world,” “village,” “homestead,” “dwelling,” and “safe dwelling,” as well as indicating a direction, as it continues to do in a phrase such as _go home_. The primary meaning in contemporary usages of the word is “the seat of domestic life and interests” (_OED_). In this sense, the word is close to the Latin _domus_, from which the adjective _domestic_ is derived. As well as referring to a building or place, however, _home_ simultaneously refers to the quality of feelings associated with that place so that home is, as the _OED_ notes, “the place of one’s dwelling or nurturing,” which can include members of a family or household, “with the conditions, circumstances, and feelings which naturally and properly attach to it.” But _home_ can also designate the local (home team), an institution (children’s home), a nation (homeland), or the origin and destination of play in games (home base). Not surprisingly, then, it is identified as one of the one thousand most commonly used words in the online version of _Collins Dictionary_. A nurturing and safe family home is a primary setting...