dwelling

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdwɛ.lɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
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Etymology 1

From Middle English dwelling, duelling (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

Noun

dwelling (plural dwellings)

  1. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; home
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:
      He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
    The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
    • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, Enoch Arden
      Philip's dwelling fronted on the street.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:abode
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References
  • dwelling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology 2

From dwell +‎ -ing.

Verb

dwelling

  1. present participle of dwell
    I was dwelling in the cave.
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