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View synonyms for abode

abode

1

[ uh-bohd ]

noun

  1. a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
  2. an extended stay in a place; sojourn.


abode

2

[ uh-bohd ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of abide.

abode

1

/ əˈbəʊd /

noun

  1. a place in which one lives; one's home
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


abode

2

/ əˈbəʊd /

verb

  1. a past tense and past participle of abide
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of abode1

1200–50; Middle English abood a waiting, delay, stay; akin to abide
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Word History and Origins

Origin of abode1

C17: n formed from abide
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Example Sentences

When it comes to feeling proud of your abode and peaceful at home, a well-manicured yard can make all the difference.

Yet many oceanographers failed to recognize that the ocean is also an “abode of life.”

This year, we fashioned abodes shingled with salami, sided with breadsticks and decorated with almonds.

It’s full of the little insights you probably aren’t thinking of when you dream of living in a cabin, RV or other alternative abode.

These are simple and elegant, and would look great in a bathroom or as a living room throw in a seaside abode.

Andrew Borden, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and his wife, Abby, lived in the stately abode at 92 Second Street.

When the headlights of the car in which Kumar travels lights up one such abode he feels immediately guilty.

The Sultan of Brunei will not have a quasi-Islamist rebellion within the Abode of Peace.

“That is not their real house,” Andrew says of a Kardashian abode.

Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him, had changed him for every other eye but mine.

To this address he betook himself on the morning of his arrival, but found that his friend had changed his abode.

The duty of a husband to provide a home implies his right to select and fix the marital abode.

Yes, dark cellars seem to be a favourite abode of these common ghosts.

And she still held the young man captive by means of the allurements of her crystal abode.

If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

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