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Dwelling   /dwˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Dwelling

noun
1.
Housing that someone is living in.  Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home.  "They raise money to provide homes for the homeless"



Dwell

verb
(past & past part. dwelt or dwelled; pres. part. dwelling)
1.
Think moodily or anxiously about something.  Synonym: brood.
2.
Originate (in).  Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in.
3.
Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.  Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate.  "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted" , "This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean" , "Deer are populating the woods"
4.
Exist or be situated within.  Synonym: inhabit.
5.
Come back to.  Synonym: harp.  "She is always harping on the same old things"



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"Dwelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... threw away everything. Rosalie's mother throughout the whole of her life gave away everything. Rosalie's father was a tragic figure dwelling in a house of bondage; but he was at least a tragic king, ruling his house and venting his griefs upon his house. Rosalie's mother was a tragic figure and she was a tragic slave in the house of bondage. The life of Rosalie's father was a tragedy, but a tragedy in some measure relieved because ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... the Jews and pagans, as disturbers of the public peace. They were already sufficiently intoxicated with the fanaticism with which their religion inspired them, and were persuaded that God held himself in readiness to crown them, and to receive them into his eternal dwelling. In a word, seeing the heavens opened, and being convinced that the end of the world was approaching, it is not surprising that they had courage to set punishment at defiance, to endure it with constancy, and to despise death. To these ...
— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach

... work they had a great deal to say—after answering numberless anxious inquiries as to the state of the wounded man—upon the subject of Ralli's treatment of Lance and his threat to flog him. They denounced this conduct as not only unjust but also impolitic to the last degree, dwelling strongly upon the unadvisability of offending a man so skilled as Lance in medicine and surgery, and impressing their audience with the necessity for discouraging—and, if necessary, interfering to prevent—the carrying ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood

... University of Michigan. Several predecessors in this field have done their work so well that another book entirely historical in character might seem superfluous. Rather it is the aim of this volume to furnish a survey—sketching broadly the development of the University, and dwelling upon incidents and personalities that contribute ...
— The University of Michigan • Wilfred Shaw

... dwelt there; and timber and plants floating about have been cast on shore, and their vitality not yet destroyed, have taken root; and more coral and shells have been heaved up and ground fine by the toiling waves to form a beach; and thus a fit dwelling-place for man has been formed. Nearing the sandy beach we heave-to for soundings, but finding none, the ship stands off, while Phineas and I, with Tom Tar and our boat's crew, well armed, pull in with the intention of landing. ...
— The Cruise of the Mary Rose - Here and There in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston


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