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Dwelling   /dwˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Dwelling

noun
1.
Housing that someone is living in.  Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home.  "They raise money to provide homes for the homeless"



Dwell

verb
(past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)
1.
Think moodily or anxiously about something.  Synonym: brood.
2.
Originate (in).  Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in.
3.
Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.  Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate.  "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted" , "This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean" , "Deer are populating the woods"
4.
Exist or be situated within.  Synonym: inhabit.
5.
Come back to.  Synonym: harp.  "She is always harping on the same old things"



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"Dwelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... undertaking required. Meanwhile they heard, as certain, that the pirate was stationed on the Pangasinan River, where he had made a strong settlement. Upon obtaining this news—which was most agreeable to the Spaniards—the governor summoned all the people dwelling thereabout, ordering them to come to the city where he resided. At this same time, he sent word to all the encomenderos or seigniors of the villages of those islands called Pintados, ordering them to assemble at the same place with as many ships and men as possible, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume VI, 1583-1588 • Emma Helen Blair

... which was their favourite and peculiar food, and on this account called the monkeys' bread-fruit. In fact, my companion and I now suspected that the great tree was their habitual place of resort— their roost or dwelling-place—and that they had been just on their way home, from their day's rambling in the woods, when they first came upon us. This would account for the fierce and unprovoked attack which they had at ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid

... disagreeable. But these struck aside to their various destinations or were out-walked and left behind; and when she had driven off with sharp words the proffered convoy of some of her nephews and nieces, she was free to go on alone up Hermiston brae, walking on air, dwelling intoxicated among clouds of happiness. Near to the summit she heard steps behind her, a man's steps, light and very rapid. She knew the foot at once and walked the faster. "If it's me he's wanting, he can run ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) - The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

... to her face. Between them and those guardian peaks a steel bridge, fine as a spider web, was etched on the river, then a first orchard broke the areas of sage, the rows of young trees radiating from a small, new dwelling, like a geometrical pattern. Finally she said: "I would like to know a little more about Mrs. Barbour. Did you ever see her again, Mr. Tisdale? ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

... of a powerful Bechwana tribe, named the Bangwaketsi, whose chief was Makaba, dwelling about two hundred miles to the north-east. To this chief and people he ...
— Robert Moffat - The Missionary Hero of Kuruman • David J. Deane


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