- made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- made in one's own country; domestic: I prefer a homemade car to one of those foreign models.
- made, contrived, or assembled by oneself; not professionally made or done; amateurish: the plain look of homemade furniture.
- (esp of cakes, jam, and other foods) made at home or on the premises, esp of high-quality ingredients
- crudely fashioned
