abode

English

Alternative forms

• abood (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /əˈbəʊd/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd

Etymology 1

From Old English abad, abood, from abiden (“to abide”). See abide. For the change of vowel, compare abode, imp. of abide.

Noun

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode.

2. (rare outside fixed expressions) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
   • He waxeth at your abode here. - Henry Fielding
3. (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
   • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode. - William Wordsworth

Synonyms

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Translations

obsolete: act of waiting

Dutch: wachten (nl) Finnish: viivytys (fi)

German: Verweilen (de) n., Warten (de) n. Russian: задержка (ru) (zad'éržka) f., промедление (ru) (prom'edl'énije) n.

stay or continuance in a place; sojourn

Bulgarian: местопребиваване (bg) Dutch: verblijf (nl) n., woonstee (nl) f. Finnish: oleskelu (fi)

German: Aufenthalt (de) m. Russian: пребывание (ru) (pr'ebyvánije) n. Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh (gd) f.

slightly dated: residence

Bulgarian: жилище (bg) Dutch: woonstee (nl) f., verblijf (nl), onderkomen (nl) n. Finnish: asunto (fi) German: Bleibe (de) f., Wohnung (de) f. Polish: miejsce zamieszkania n., siedziba f.

Russian: жилище (ru) (žilíš'e) n., обиталище (ru) (obitáliš'e) n., обитель (ru) (obít'el') f. Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: obitavalište (sh), nastan (sh) Spanish: morada (es) f., residencia (es) f., vivienda (es) f. Swedish: boning (sv) c., hemvist (sv) c., vistelse (sv) c.

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French: demeure Vietnamese: nơi ở, sự ở lại, sự lưu lại

Verb

abode

1. Simple past tense and past participle of abide.

Etymology 2

From a- + bode

Noun

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) An omen.
   • High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. - George Chapman

Verb

abode (third-person singular simple present abodes, present participle aboding, simple past and past participle aboded)

1. (transitive) (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
2. (intransitive) (obsolete) To be ominous.

Derived terms

• abodement
• aboding

See also

• dwelling

Anagrams

• adobe