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DWELLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Housing that someone is living in
Example:
they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Synonyms:
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dwelling" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
Meronyms (parts of "dwelling"):
family room (a recreation room in a private house)
dressing room (a room in which you can change clothes)
dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)
kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)
dinette (a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining)
front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)
den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)
bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)
bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dwelling"):
cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)
condo; condominium (one of the dwelling units in a condominium)
fixer-upper (a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price))
fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)
hermitage (the abode of a hermit)
homestead (dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land)
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
lake dwelling; pile dwelling (dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages)
indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)
messuage ((law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household)
semi-detached house (a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side)
vacation home (a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation)
yurt (a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing)
Derivation:
dwell (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dwell
Context examples:
You were dwelling upon the sadness and horror and useless waste of life.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In pleading, they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause; but are loud, violent, and tedious, in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But you must be aware that when a young lady is (by whatever means) introduced into a dwelling of this kind, she is always lodged apart from the rest of the family.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I revolved many projects, but that on which I finally fixed was to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
So that, in fact, you see, if people do but know how to set about it, every comfort may be as well enjoyed in a cottage as in the most spacious dwelling.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A man-at-arms on either side of the doorway were the sole protectors of the royal dwelling.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A set of organisms classified according to their dwelling.
(Housing Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families.
(House, NCI Thesaurus)
Susan, who had an innate taste for the genteel and well-appointed, was eager to hear, and Fanny could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
