The police arrested on the day the rickshaw puller at his residence in a Brahmanbaria village. The law enforcers arrested the chief conservator in possession of a huge sum of money at his home at the forest office headquarters. The leader was confined to her home on Wednesday. After a long break, she went back to her house to stay with her husband and children. --- reports keep coming in with mindless use of the words --- home, house and residence.
Residence, which is a place of dwelling, is often for a certain length of time, especially of a person of rank or distinction. A house is a strucutre serving as a dwelling. It can mean a burrow of a rato ro even an assembly. And 'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in' by Robert Frost. It is place of dwelling with family ties. The connotation of home is wider than that of house and the word is employed to mean houses which aspire to be home, such as a nursing home or a foster home. Apart from such connotations, good dictionaries list several other definitions for each of the words, sometimes one overlapping another.
So in most cases, the police raid on the house of ordinary people, high government officials live in their residences, someone is confined to a house, and people get back home to spend time with family.
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