dwellingformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Home
a roof over your headidiom
accommodation
bolthole
crib
domestic
domestically
domesticated
fold
give something/someone houseroomphrase
habitation
hangout
harem
hearth
non-home
pad
premises
rabbit hutch
residence
residential
roof

abode | American Dictionary

abode
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈboʊd/
fml
the place where someone lives:
[ C ]He was a wanderer with no permanent abode.

abode | Business English

abode
noun[ C or U ]
 LAW formaluk /əˈbəʊd/us
a home or permanent place to live:
He voted to allow 50,000 Hong Kong families the right of abode in Britain.
 no fixed abode
used in legal cases to say that someone does not have a permanent address:
Three men, all of no fixed abode, appeared in court charged with violent disorder.

Examples of abode

abode
If true, this theoretical work would rule out half the stars on the sky as being possible abodes for life.
And rightly so, for sweetness in mercy and courtesy have in her their abode.
These spirits are often imagined as having a name and a personality, and to have their abode in an invisible world.
Although at times they did become a party to gang robberies, their fixed abodes acted as a constraint.
In males, 5.0 % were of no fixed abode, compared with 0.7 % of females.
This was carried in the hunter's bag (wuopuo) and might be installed as a shrine in the new abode.
We thought we were entering the tranquil and neatly ordered abode of reason, but we find ourselves in a factory.
She joined her husband in her journey to her heavenly abode.
She enjoys a separate abode in temple precincts, and has a large number of rituals and ceremonies connected to her.
The entrance to the abode of the mysterious cliff-dwellers is a cave in the side of the rock.
In his own state of wandering (between one abode and the next), he too might be considered liminal - a liminal man in a liminal landscape.
Only 2 of the 1851 patients gave the workhouse as their previous place of abode, suggesting recent arrival for the remainder.
She departed for her heavenly abode.
As the 'occasional ' thugs often had no fixed abode they occupied a precarious position between sedentary and peripatetic society.
The word 'home' ('eternal home') has been used only once while its formal and literary variant 'abode' ('heavenly abode') figures in very many ads.
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