ABODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abode mean? 

• ABODE (noun)
  The noun ABODE has 2 senses:

1. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

2. housing that someone is living in

  Familiarity information: ABODE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABODE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

abode; residence

Context example:

a person can have several residences

Hypernyms ("abode" is a kind of...):

address (the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abode"):

domicile; legal residence ((law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time)

home; place (where you live at a particular time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Housing that someone is living in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home

Context example:

they raise money to provide homes for the homeless

Hypernyms ("abode" is a kind of...):

housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)

Meronyms (parts of "abode"):

bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)

front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)

kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)

family room (a recreation room in a private house)

dressing room (a room in which you can change clothes)

dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)

dinette (a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining)

den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)

bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abode"):

cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)

condo; condominium (one of the dwelling units in a condominium)

fixer-upper (a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price))

fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)

hermitage (the abode of a hermit)

homestead (dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land)

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

lake dwelling; pile dwelling (dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages)

indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)

messuage ((law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household)

semi-detached house (a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side)

vacation home (a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation)

yurt (a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing)

 Context examples 

A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And we have no other place of abode.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had heard nothing of him since her leaving London, nothing new of his plans, nothing certain even of his present abode.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Coming near, I found the door slightly ajar; probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Their superiority of abode was no more to them than their superiority of person.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was the name, style, and abode of my morning visitor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, it seems that Ross 128 is a much quieter star, and so its planets may be the closest known comfortable abode for possible life.

(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)

She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)