domicilenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdɒm.ɪ.saɪl/us/ˈdɑː.mə.saɪl/formal or specializedthe place where a person lives
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Home
- a roof over your head idiom
- abode
- accommodation
- address
- an Englishman's home is his castle idiom
- bolthole
- domestic
- down
- down sb's way idiom
- dwelling
- Englishman
- gaff
- habitation
- hangout
- place
- premises
- residence
- residential
- spiritual home
- the home front
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Examples from literature
- Fortunately, Mr. Maynard had been able to rent the bungalow he wanted, and it was this picturesque domicile that so roused King's admiration.
- The lower classes of the people, in their persons and their domiciles, are not clean—but there it stops—the town and the island are miracles of cleanliness.
- Then I shall sweep into her domicile, arrayed in all my glory.
- Twenty miles, he estimated, still lay between him and his domicile.
- With the aid of a few friends he installed her in a new domicile, and procured work for her.