dwelling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/, X-SAMPA: /"dwEl.IN/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

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Noun

dwelling (plural dwellings)

1. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess^[1]:

     He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

   The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.

   Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. - Alfred Tennyson

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:abode

Derived terms

• dwelling house: a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building
• dwelling place
• lake dwelling: prehistoric structure

Translations

a place or house in which a person lives

• Arabic: منزل (ar) (mánzil) m
• Basque: bizileku (eu), bizitoki (eu)
• Bulgarian: жилище (bg) (žílište) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 住宅 (cmn) (zhùzhái), 住所 (cmn) (zhùsuǒ)

• Czech: obydlí (cs) n
• Dutch: woning (nl)
• Esperanto: loĝejo (eo)
• Finnish: asunto (fi), asumus (fi)
• French: domicile (fr) m, habitation (fr) f
• German: Wohnsitz (de) m, Wohnung (de) f
• Hebrew: שכן (shechen)
• Hungarian: lak (hu), lakás (hu)

• Ido: lojeyo (io)
• Italian: abitazione (it) f, residenza (it) f, dimora (it) f
• Japanese: 居留 (ja) (きょりゅう, kyoryū), 住居 (ja) (じゅうきょ, jūkyo), 住宅 (ja) (じゅうたく, jūtaku)
• Jèrriais: d'meuthe f
• Maori: tūohunga (mi)
• Old Norse: bo (Eastern dialect), bu (Western dialect)
• Pashto: كور (ps) (kor) m, خونه (ps) (xuna) f
• Polish: mieszkanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m, moradia (pt) f
• Russian: жилище (ru) (žilíšče) n, жильё (ru) (žil'jó) n
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh (gd) f
• Spanish: domicilio (es), morada (es), residencia (es), vasa (es).
• Ukrainian: житло (uk) (žytló) n, помешкання (uk) (poméškannja) n

References

• dwelling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Verb

dwelling

1. Present participle of dwell.

   I was dwelling in the cave.