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Word Meanings - DWELLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling

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Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.

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  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • ABIDER
    1. One who abides, or continues. "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.
  • INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
    The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
  • RESIDE
    1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place
  • RESIDENTIAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
  • INHABITATION
    1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
  • RESIDENTIARYSHIP
    The office or condition of a residentiary.
  • INHABITED
    Uninhabited. Brathwait.
  • RESIDUUM
    That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. "I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the
  • RESIDUE
    That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies. (more info) that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to
  • INHABITANT
    One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
  • ABIDANCE
    The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance . The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.
  • INHABIT
    To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.
  • DWELL
    AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
  • ABIDE
    1. To wait; to pause; to delay. Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv.
  • RESIDENCIA
    In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.
  • RESIDENTSHIP
    The office or condition of a resident.
  • ABODEMENT
    A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
  • INDWELLING
    Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
  • TABID
    Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.
  • PRESIDENT
    Precedent. Bacon.
  • LABIDOMETER
    A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head.
  • RABIDLY
    In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
  • COLLOCATION
    The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
  • PRESIDIAL; PRESIDIARY
    Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell. (more info) praesidiarius, fr. praesidium a presiding over, defense, guard. See
  • CHICKABIDDY
    A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
  • OUTDWELL
    To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
  • DISLOCATION
    The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. (more info) 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.

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