Word Meanings - PERNOCTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERNOCTATION)

• Residence
• stay
• sojourn
• occupation
• abode
• pernoctation
• dwelling
• location

Related words: (words related to PERNOCTATION)

• 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
• ABODE
  of Abide.
• 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
• ABODEMENT
  A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
• SOJOURN
  A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. Though long detained In that obscure sojourn. Milton.
• SOJOURNMENT
  Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler.
• RESIDENCE
  The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
• PERNOCTATION
  The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. "Pernoctation in prayer." Jer. Taylor.
• SOJOURNING
  The act or state of one who sojourns.
• SOJOURNER
  One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.
• LOCATION
  The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act or process of locating. 2. Situation; place; locality.
• DWELLING
  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
• DWELLER
  An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• 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.
• 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.
• TRANSLOCATION
  removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.
• RELOCATION
  Renewal of a lease. (more info) 1. A second location.
• INDWELLER
  An inhabitant. Spenser.
• MISCOLLOCATION
  Wrong collocation. De Quincey.
• ALLOCATION
  1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. 2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive
• SPEEDWELL
  Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
• INTERLOCATION
  A placing or coming between; interposition.
• WATER SPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America.
• ELOCATION
  1. A removal from the usual place of residence. 2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy.
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.