"home terrain" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the familiar and comfortable surroundings of someone's home or the area they are most comfortable in. Example: After years of traveling, the actor felt relieved to finally be back on his home terrain, surrounded by his family and friends.
Most of his work has been accomplished almost wholly in his home terrain.
Her home terrain, however, is the river-riven landscape of the human heart.
And in all of Erie County, Mr. Vacco's home terrain, only 134 of 10,334 absentee ballots were challenged.
Most of the Ballet Arizona dancers here made quite different impressions from those they made in a Balanchine triple bill last weekend on their Arizona home terrain.
Whatever the answer, her decision to explore her home terrain, physical and psychic, from the inside is surely part of what gives her art its intensity.
It must have been a daring and risky escape, passing through Hezbollah's home terrain and across a fenced and guarded border.
A further 500m up the hill, past the Paul Cézanne retirement home is the Terrain des Peintres.
The drive to their home passes through terrain that explains men's presence at Promise Keepers as well as anything else I've seen or read.
Indeed, some residents of West Milford, in Passaic County, are battling black bears that have become so at home in human terrain that residents claim they look both ways before crossing the street.
Because America's own security will rest in a world where tribes matter as much as Twitter, Fermor is an icon of the kind of soldier, diplomat or intelligence expert we will need: someone who can seamlessly move from any one of these jobs to another, who is equally at home reading a terrain map as he is reciting the poetry of the people with whom he is dealing.
Lindholm is at home on such terrain.
