home range

noun

: the area to which an animal usually confines its daily activities

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Now, these discounts are as steep as OR’s home range—the picturesque, quad-cramping Cascades—with 60 percent off on hundreds of pieces of gear. Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 11 June 2025 Thompson said mother bears may expand their range while teaching cubs where to look for food while older, juvenile bears — those between the ages of 18 and 30 months — will leave their mother’s home range and travel in search of a new place to settle down. Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025 Jaguars in Sonora, meanwhile, have incredibly large home ranges, and can travel as much as 10 miles a day, Gómez said. Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025 More research will be required to determine that those giant marsupials, unlike massive foraging mammals, have home ranges tied more to their habitat than their body size. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for home range

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of home range was in 1902

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“Home range.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20range. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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