abode
1a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
an extended stay in a place; sojourn.
Origin of abode
1Words Nearby abode
Other 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
When it comes to feeling proud of your abode and peaceful at home, a well-manicured yard can make all the difference.
Best hedge trimmer: Keep your backyard tidy with these powerful clippers | Florie Korani | June 24, 2021 | Popular-ScienceYet many oceanographers failed to recognize that the ocean is also an “abode of life.”
A new book explores how military funding shaped the science of oceanography | Alka Tripathy-Lang | April 16, 2021 | Science NewsThis year, we fashioned abodes shingled with salami, sided with breadsticks and decorated with almonds.
These 10 food trends were the distractions we needed in 2020 | Emily Heil | December 24, 2020 | Washington PostIt’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.
If you’re thinking of a drastic lifestyle change, ‘Off Grid Life’ will feed your fantasy (or kill it) | Tim Smith | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostThese are simple and elegant, and would look great in a bathroom or as a living room throw in a seaside abode.
Soft, lightweight Turkish towels for bathrooms and beach trips | PopSci Commerce Team | September 4, 2020 | Popular-Science
Andrew Borden, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and his wife, Abby, lived in the stately abode at 92 Second Street.
Would You Stay in Lizzie Borden’s Ax-Murder House? | Nina Strochlic | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen 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.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo this address he betook himself on the morning of his arrival, but found that his friend had changed his abode.
The Garret and the Garden | R.M. BallantyneThe duty of a husband to provide a home implies his right to select and fix the marital abode.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesYes, dark cellars seem to be a favourite abode of these common ghosts.
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts | George CruikshankAnd she still held the young man captive by means of the allurements of her crystal abode.
Honey-Bee | Anatole FranceIf 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.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham
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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