abode1
/əˈbəʊd
/noun formal or literary
1A place of residence; a house or home: my humble abode...
- These are the people living in bed and breakfasts, sofa surfing with friends and moving from house to house with no fixed abode.
- In between the luxurious modern houses are two curious abodes.
- Their house was more like a small castle than a humble abode.
Synonyms
home, house, place of residence/habitation, accommodation, habitat, base, seat;
quarters, lodgings, rooms;
address, location, place, whereabouts
informal pad, digs, diggings
formal dwelling, dwelling place, residence, habitation
without a roof over one's head, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough, living rough;
destitute, down and out, derelict, itinerant
1.1 [mass noun] Residence: their right of abode in Britain...
- This points to a worldly, finite, lived morality - to an ethos in its sense of abode and dwelling place - and away from the abstract and systematic utilitarianism so common in Australia.
- In the time since he had left his native Ballyredmond and taken up his abode in Rathvilly he had spent a period of time in Courtown, Co. Wexford.
- The independent senator said a lot of the crime in the society was being committed by people of no fixed place of abode.
1.2 archaic A stay; a sojourn.He waxeth Wrath at your Abode here.
Phrases
of no fixed abode
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'act of waiting'): verbal noun from abide.
Rhymes
abode2
/əˈbəʊd/verb
Archaic past of abide.