dwelling
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.
Noun
editdwelling (plural dwellings)
- A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode
- The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
- 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 40:
- For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, / The latest house to landward; but behind, / With one small gate that open'd on the waste, / Flourish'd a little garden square and wall'd; [...]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 9:
- He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times[1]:
- I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
Derived terms
edit- dwellinghouse, dwelling house
- dwelling-place
- dwelling place
- indwelling
- lake dwelling (“prehistoric structure”)
- multidwelling
Translations
edithouse or place in which a person lives
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References
edit- “dwelling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editdwelling
- present participle and gerund of dwell
Middle English
editNoun
editdwelling
- alternative form of dwellynge
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