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【one's spiritual home】
ODE の定義
a place in which one feels a strong sense of belonging
例文:I had always thought of Italy as my ●spiritual home●.
OED の定義と例文
e. spiritual home n. (with no religious connotation),
a place or milieu, other than one's home, which seems especially
congenial or in harmony with one's nature, or to which one feels
a sense of belonging or indebtedness.
■1932 Week-End Rev. 7 May 586/1
If they write about it at all they make it clear that Europe is ●their spiritual home●.
■1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun iii. 52
A man like you would be at Deauville or Le Touquet... That's your―what's the phrase?―●spiritual home●.
■1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile xi. 186
He disliked Lord Ickenham, considering him a potty sort of feller
whose ●spiritual home● was a padded cell in some not too choosy lunatic asylum.
■1967 P. G. Wodehouse Company for Henry iv. 57
●His spiritual home● would have been some such establishment as
Edgar Allen Poe's House of Usher, into which he would have fitted like the paper on the wall.
■1977 Vole No. 4. 41/2
The cult of Rastafarianism, involving the deification of Haile
Selassie, the promise of Ethiopia as ●their spiritual home●, and above all, the rejection of..white society.
(OED Online)