dwelling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdwɛ.lɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

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Etymology 1

From Middle English dwelling, duelling (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

Noun

dwelling (plural dwellings)

1. 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 879237670, 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 483591931, 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

• dwellinghouse
• dwelling-place
• lake dwelling (“prehistoric structure”)

Translations

house or place in which a person lives

• Arabic: مَنْزِل‎ (ar) m (manzil), سَكَن‎ m (sakan)

  Moroccan Arabic: سكْنة‎ f (səkna)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: mənzil (az), ev (az)
• Basque: bizileku (eu), bizitoki (eu)
• Belarusian: жыллё n (žylljó)
• Bulgarian: жи́лище (bg) n (žílište)
• Catalan: habitatge (ca), vivenda
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀu·ču-
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 住宅 (zh) (zhùzhái), 住所 (zh) (zhùsuǒ)

• Czech: obydlí (cs) n
• Dutch: woning (nl), woonst (nl) f
• Esperanto: loĝejo (eo)
• Finnish: asunto (fi), asumus (fi)
• French: domicile (fr) m, habitation (fr) f
• Galician: eido m, vivenda (gl) f, moranza f, moradía f, soxorno m, lar (gl) m
• German: Wohnsitz (de) m, Wohnung (de) f, Behausung (de), Wohnstätte
• Greek:

  Ancient: οἴκημα n (oíkēma), οἴκησις f (oíkēsis)

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שכן‎ (he) (shechen)
• Hungarian: lak (hu), lakás (hu)
• Ido: lojeyo (io)
• Italian: abitazione (it) f, residenza (it) f, dimora (it) f

• Japanese: 居留 (きょりゅう, kyoryū), 住居 (ja) (じゅうきょ, jūkyo), 住宅 (ja) (じゅうたく, jūtaku)
• Korean: 주거 (ko) (jugeo), 주택 (ko) (jutaek), 거류 (ko) (georyu)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wahnung f, Wahnen f, Wahnsitt m

• Macedonian: живеалиште n (živealište)
• Maori: tuohunga
• Norman: d'meuthe f
• Old Norse: (Eastern dialect) bo, (Western dialect) bú
• Old Turkic: 𐰋‎ (b²)
• Pashto: کور‎ (ps) m (kor), خونه‎ (ps) f (xuna)
• Polish: mieszkanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m, moradia (pt) f
• Romanian: locuință (ro) f, domiciliu (ro) n
• Russian: жили́ще (ru) n (žilíšče), жильё (ru) n (žilʹjó)
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh f
• Slovak: obydlie n
• Slovene: bivališče n
• Spanish: domicilio (es), morada (es), residencia (es), vasa
• Thai: ชุมรุม, ทำเนียบ (th) (tam-nîiap), เวสน์
• Turkish: ev (tr), konut (tr)
• Ukrainian: житло́ n (žytló), поме́шкання (uk) n (poméškannja)
• Vietnamese: chổ ở
• Walloon: dimorance (wa) f, lodjisse (wa) m

References

• dwelling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From dwell +‎ -ing.

Verb

dwelling

1. present participle of dwell

   I was dwelling in the cave..