dwelling
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.
Noun edit
dwelling (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.
Derived terms edit
- dwellinghouse, dwelling house
- dwelling-place
- dwelling place
- lake dwelling (“prehistoric structure”)
Translations edit
house 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 edit
Verb edit
dwelling
- present participle and gerund of dwell
Middle English edit
Noun edit
dwelling
- Alternative form of dwellynge