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second home

 noun
     
second home
1 [countable] a house or apartment that you own as well as your main home and which you use, for example, for holidays:
town-dwellers who buy second homes in the countryside
2 [singular] a place where you spend a large amount of time but which is not where you live:
I love Italy. It's my second home.
From then on the hospital became my second home.
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