homemade

New2grammarWhich is more natural?

These dresses are homemade/handmade.

These cookies are homemade/handmade.

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Optilang, What are the opposites for the two terms?

New2grammarWhich is more natural?

These dresses are homemade/handmade.

These cookies are homemade/handmade.

Which is more natural? "I like apples," or "I like oranges"?

To me, "homemade" has an aspect of being produced by an amateur, although many high-productions companies advertise their goods as homemade. ("Homestyle" might be m

I feel that some things tend to be associated with one of the terms more than the other.

You would say a wood craft as handmade and not homemade, wouldn't you?

Something that is handmade is not necessarily homemade. Furniture may be handmade in a factory; fine ceramics may be handmade in a pottery. But things that are homemade will also be most likely handmade. Something crafted in wood could be homemade.

I feel that this is another case where the context of use will govern its meaning.

New2grammarOptilang, What are the opposites for the two terms?

Mass-produced.

New2grammarI feel that some things tend to be associated with one of the terms more than the other.

This would be true for a given culture at a given point in time. If you were to make a list of products, artifacts, tools etc. which are currently popular among a certain group, you could go down the list and choose whether "handmade" or "homemade" might bette

Very generallly, the opposite of handmade would be machine-made or mass-produced, and the opposite of home-made would be store-bought.

My mother always made my birthday cakes; I liked them so much better than the cakes that some of my friends had that were store-bought.

(Unless it was from the European bakery in Yarmouth, Maine, where they had

Grammar GeekI remember hearing a girl say she liked her mother's cookies because they were so much better than the "boughten" ones.

Hi GG. My mom told me that when bakery-made sliced bread first came on line everyone considered it a rare treat, but not long afterward the home-baked bread, hand-sliced, was the treat.

Thank you, everyone. I see the difference now.

GG, I have two questions. Is frosting the same as icing? I believe they are uncountable.

Grammar Geek(Unless it was from the European bakery in Yarmouth, Maine, where they had seven-layer cake with raspberry filling and a mocha frosting. Now THAT was fine eats!)

What is the meaning of 'eatS'?