The Meaning of Home

What does home mean? If you look it up in the dictionary it says word-by-word “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household”. But this isn't the answer we're looking for is it? When you look up synonyms for home, house comes up. Most people think that a synonym is a word with the same meaning as another word but the dictionary says that it can also mean a word that is similar. The only difference between house and home is the fact that a home has sentimental value. That small, insignificant detail is actually the opposite of what it seems. If I was the dictator of language, I wouldn't consider home to be similar to the word house at all and would make house and home no longer synonyms. I would always say that a house is hollow but a home is not. A home has a heart and the person(s) within are that heart. But some people tell me that without the brain there is no heart, therefore a house and a home are more similar than I thought. Honestly, it is a metaphorical statement when I say the home has a heart. For the people who can't understand it, who cares! This is what home means to me, not to someone else. I'm only a kid, I don't know that much, but I know one thing, home means everything to me as well as it does to the people who don't want one. So, to conclude, home is abstract, but sometimes the things you can't see or feel or even describe are the things that mean the most.