abode
1a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
an extended stay in a place; sojourn.
Origin of abode
1Other definitions for abode (2 of 2)
a simple past tense and past participle of abide.
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How to use abode in a sentence
That is how it is with our rich and famous friends; we go to their homes, but they do not visit our humble abodes.
A short time after this she was taken to pass a week at the luxurious abodes of Maria Antoinette.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottHe found me very feverish, ordered me a straw bed, and insisted I should be removed from the caverns into one of the abodes above.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoThese various abodes to which the incorporeal man took flight were not always his everlasting home.
The Myths of the New World | Daniel G. BrintonAs civilized men, or rather as men who had forsaken a land of civilization for purer abodes of piety and peace?
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 | Egerton Ryerson
He drove into a village of half a dozen houses or so, which reminded him of the pictured abodes of Noah and his brethren.
A Maker of History | E. Phillips Oppenheim
British Dictionary definitions for abode (1 of 2)
/ (əˈbəʊd) /
a place in which one lives; one's home
Origin of abode
1British Dictionary definitions for abode (2 of 2)
/ (əˈbəʊd) /
a past tense and past participle of abide
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