Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place to live in; an abode.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Delay.
- n. Continuance; stay; sojourn.
- n. Habitation; residence; abode; lodgment.
- n. A place of residence or abode; an abiding-place; specifically, a house for residence; a dwelling-house.
Wiktionary
- n. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
- v. present participle of dwell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
WordNet 3.0
- n. housing that someone is living in
Examples
“Joyce isn't interested in dwelling on statistics such as those.”
The Washington Post: As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas
“Census questions include: how many people live at the address; whether the dwelling is owned or rented; a phone number; and, for each household member, a name, sex, age, date of birth, race and indication of Hispanic origin.”
“The once concrete dwelling is also now cooled by this greenery and shaded year round.”
Via Torino Renovated Green Loft in Fashionable Milan | Inhabitat
“It covers and unifies a number of functions; garages and storeroom of bicycles, access terrace with a storm lobby, main dwelling space, living terrace and the fencing.”
“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”
“I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”
“There was an unfairness about it that perplexed Frederick, until he found solace in dwelling upon the failure Tom had made of life.”
“Enter, holy pilgrims, receive this corner, for though this dwelling is poor,”
“The dwelling is in the design development stage right now.”
“With its exuberant primary colors and its intimate scale, this small, inexpensively built, light-filled, semi-detached De Stijl dwelling is the antithesis of the severe work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus that came to define European modernism.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dwelling’.
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Guide to the Perplexed
Lexicon of terms set forth in Maimonides 'Guide to the Perplexed'. A fascinating exercise in theosophy and translation if one substitutes these definitions for a "revised" reading of the Old Testa...
eye, apprehend, associations, air, ruah : or ruhoth,..., affection, attribute, approach, accidents, ascending, articulated, back and 119 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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Stick Around
annotine, lasting, durable, everlasting, permanence, stable, abiding, immortal, hibernaculum, continual, dwelling-place, abiding-place and 57 more...
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Place to stay
dwelling, residence, home, house, lodging, diggings, digs, flat, room, apartment, hermitage, abode and 4 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Words I See Primarily in Books About ...
furze, peat, turnips, Michaelmas, Candlemas, hunter's moon, harvest moon, banish, rampart, lest, ordure, market day and 74 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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2011 July
New words
correspondent, promulgate, transgress, trite, ravine, corespondent, contrivance, contrive, expedient, conducive, clairvoyance, difform and 184 more...
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Industrial Revolution 1750 - 1900
This is a list of words used in the Industrial Revolution topic over the next few weeks...
Revolution, Exhibition, industrialised, factory, transport, empire, crime, sanitation, dwelling
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Journey of a 300-Year-Old House
If you read this in order from top to bottom, the word progression suggests the "lifespan" of a 300-year-old house in Pennsylvania.
national register..., volunteers, storage, visitors, library, curator, quarters, caretaker, hardware, beam, chamfered, joists and 42 more...
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rudabeckia's Words
cross, wholly, lobe, sauce, quarrel, horrid, wooly, chutney, cheery, starling, vex, woolen and 67 more...
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medieval
ghosts
ancestors
unnameable, unknowable, unfathomable
the feeling of reading Joseph Conrad or H. P. Lovecraft
or walking through Kunark in EverQuest
or looking at medi...horror, gloom, melancholia, malebolgia, leviathan, dwelling, dread, cthulu, azazel, bog, skein, pilfer and 32 more...
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English Two – Summer 2009: Weekly Words
Words that were posted on our English Two blog.
The semester and the course are over now, so this list can be considered finalized.salient, ersatz, purloin, trollop, blitz, dwelling, ample, to get the ax, draconian, madeupical, eerie, gunslinger and 58 more...
Tweets
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'Although unusual, it is a dwelling house.' Aug 22, 2011
brobbins where Providence subsists, protection, Shekinah Jul 22, 2009