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ABODE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Housing that someone is living in
Example:
they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Synonyms:
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("abode" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
Meronyms (parts of "abode"):
front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)
kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)
family room (a recreation room in a private house)
dressing room (a room in which you can change clothes)
dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)
dinette (a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining)
den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)
bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)
bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abode"):
cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)
condo; condominium (one of the dwelling units in a condominium)
fixer-upper (a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price))
fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)
hermitage (the abode of a hermit)
homestead (dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land)
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
lake dwelling; pile dwelling (dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages)
indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)
messuage ((law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household)
semi-detached house (a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side)
vacation home (a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation)
yurt (a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
Example:
a person can have several residences
Synonyms:
abode; residence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("abode" is a kind of...):
address (the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abode"):
domicile; legal residence ((law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time)
home; place (where you live at a particular time)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb abide
Context examples:
But the dwarf put the same spell upon him as he put on his elder brother, and he, too, was at last obliged to take up his abode in the heart of the mountains.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Given 2004 EW95’s present-day abode in the icy outer reaches of the Solar System, this implies that it has been flung out into its present orbit by a migratory planet in the early days of the Solar System.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
I conversed only with women, tradesmen, flappers, and court-pages, during two months of my abode there; by which, at last, I rendered myself extremely contemptible; yet these were the only people from whom I could ever receive a reasonable answer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The hint was immediately taken up by Mr Shepherd, whose interest was involved in the reality of Sir Walter's retrenching, and who was perfectly persuaded that nothing would be done without a change of abode.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a lane leading at right angles from the broad, though irregular, main street of the place; and, as may be inferred, containing the blessed abode of Mr. Elton.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was the abode of noise, disorder, and impropriety.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Favour me with an account of her—with her name, her parentage, her place of abode.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The promised letter of thanks from Mr. Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelvemonth's abode in the family might have prompted.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
