DOMICILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domicile mean? 

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

1. (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

2. housing that someone is living in

  Familiarity information: DOMICILE used as a noun is rare.

• DOMICILE (verb)
  The verb DOMICILE has 1 sense:

1. make one's home in a particular place or community

  Familiarity information: DOMICILE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMICILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

domicile; legal residence

Context example:

what's his legal residence?

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

abode; residence (any address at which you dwell more than temporarily)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

domiciliary (of or relating to or provided in a domicile)

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 ("domicile" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "domicile"):

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 "domicile"):

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)

Derivation:

domiciliary (of or relating to or provided in a domicile)

• DOMICILE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they domicile    ... he / she / it domiciles   
Past simple: domiciled   
Past participle: domiciled   
-ing form: domiciling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make one's home in a particular place or community

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

domicile; domiciliate; reside; shack

Context example:

may parents reside in Florida

Hypernyms (to "domicile" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "domicile"):

rusticate (live in the country and lead a rustic life)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The pits likely serve as mini-domiciles for microbes, conferring some degree of protection against inhospitable conditions.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

When we had engaged this domicile, I bought some cold meat at an eating-house, and took my fellow-travellers home to tea; a proceeding, I regret to state, which did not meet with Mrs. Crupp's approval, but quite the contrary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)