DWELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dwelling mean? 

• DWELLING (noun)
  The noun DWELLING has 1 sense:

1. housing that someone is living in

  Familiarity information: DWELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DWELLING (noun)

Sense 1

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "dwelling"):

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

family room (a recreation room in a private house)

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

kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)

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

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)

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

den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)

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

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

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:

dwell (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

 Context examples 

Called odilorhabdins, or ODLs, the antibiotics are produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil-dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food.

(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He was therefore honourably received, and a special dwelling was assigned him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Here is my umble dwelling, Master Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I followed it, expecting soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretched on and on, it wound far and farther: no sign of habitation or grounds was visible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Tree sloths are among the most emblematic tree-dwelling mammals.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

The mysterious night parrot, a nocturnal, ground-dwelling creature, was thought to have died out due to a loss of habitat, bushfires and attacks by feral cats.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

Some scientists believe the first fliers were tree-dwelling dinosaurs who could parachute and glide before they could fly, while some say flight grew up from the ground, from runners.

(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)

The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side.

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

The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner’s dwelling.

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