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abode1 /əˈbəʊd /noun formal or literary1A 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 Origin Middle English (in the sense 'act of waiting'): verbal noun from abide. Rhymes bestrode, bode, code, commode, corrode, download, encode, erode, explode, forebode, goad, implode, load, lode, middle-of-the-road, mode, node, ode, offload, outrode, road, rode, sarod, Spode, strode, toad, upload, woad abode2 /əˈbəʊd / |