dwelling
65
2.9
- noun
- /ˈdwɛlɪŋ/
:
vivienda
- The old brick dwelling was renovated to provide modern amenities while preserving its historic charm.
- live in a dwelling
- a dwelling unit
- a dwelling house
They don't have fixed dwellings, so they don't have a house.
- They don't have fixed dwellings, so they don't have a house.
- They rebuilt the old slave quarters, but in individual dwellings for families.
- Rossi secondly divides the city time wise into primary elements and dwellings.
- Yet we feed no hungry mouths, save no fragile lives, nor build any dwellings.
- You know, where schools at Hackney there was the large Jewish influx of children and Navarino mansions and Samuel Lewis Trust dwellings.
- And it lived in a a small dugout dwelling until they built both the, their, their early home and a blacksmith shop that still stands to this day.
- A man just bought the most expensive home dwelling in America.
- I mean, just damn kind of place you want to just damn push your spouse off of, you know, just beautiful cliffs and dwellings and just God.
- What is it about produces A dwelling and adornments for the glory of the God.
Examples
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Their dwellings are made of wood and stone and are fastened to the ground.
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Each block contained two or three dwellings for the veterans and their families.
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A man just bought the most expensive home dwelling in America.
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We made a home of it, that dwelling in a stone building in a foreign land.
Fiction book (1993) -
But this dwelling is no longer acceptable.
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They say over a million dwellings collapsed.
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They rebuilt the old slave quarters, but in individual dwellings for families.
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The paintings' cool earth tones make the villages' modest stone-and-mud dwellings blend seamlessly with the rolling hills.
Academic text (1990) -
After a long search, they finally found a cozy dwelling near the beach that felt just like home.
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The archaeologists discovered ancient dwellings that dated back thousands of years in the desert.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where someone lives and feels they belong
∞
1.0
A person's home where they live
253
2.5
A house or other place where someone lives
26
5.8
A place where someone lives, like a house
18
2.8
Rooms or small buildings where people live inside a larger place
9
7.6
The place where a person lives permanently for legal and tax purposes
4
5.1
A place where a person or animal lives
A house or building where people live, not a business building
Antonyms
Compounds
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8.0
A house built into the side of a cliff on a natural ledge, often of stone and mud
- Offensive
1
8.0
A person who lives in a basement and has little contact with other people
- Offensive
A way of living in a basement and keeping to yourself, often with little money
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dwelling comes from the verb dwell, which means 'to live' or 'stay' in one place. So a dwelling is the place where someone lives.