dwelling place
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dwelling place
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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The hymn ends: "Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me, and in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be."
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022
The Facebook executive said the company’s Horizon home project is an early vision for people to create their dwelling place in the metaverse where people will be able to gather with their friends’ digital avatars.
From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2021
Instead, when you are not working, you are probably stored in some sort of cupboard or shed, which is a fairly demeaning dwelling place for a robot.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2021
Imagine: all that firepower in the vicinity of President Trump’s ritzy hotel and his White House dwelling place.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2017
The preserved heads apparently were “spirit traps” designed to keep the spirit in its original dwelling place.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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