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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



... was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not knowing whither he went. By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker ...
— The Making of a Nation - The Beginnings of Israel's History • Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

... a boy or a man's face," she declared, privately, to Helen, when the latter was dwelling on Stanley's ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... is shorter still. He does not even mention George Fox by name. 'I was called for,' he says, 'to visit some friends in the North part of England, with whom I had union before I saw their faces, and afterwards I returned to my outward dwelling-place.' ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

... constitute the first three parts of the joy-digesting apparatus. I think there is no need of dwelling on their efficacy in helping one to enjoy achievement. Let us pass, therefore, to the fourth and last ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... me that it was not quite ingenuous in myself to attribute to the Indian writer in question (Rev. Peter Jones), the reflection on his countrymen, obviously conveyed in my expression, "discovering in him such in-dwelling ...
— A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians • James Bovell Mackenzie


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