Abode

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. A past tense and a past participle of abide.
  • n. A dwelling place; a home.
  • n. The act of abiding; a sojourn.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of abide.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • pret. of abide.
  • n. Act of waiting; delay.
  • n. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • n. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
  • n. An omen.
  • v. To bode; to foreshow.
  • verb-intransitive. To be ominous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Stay; continuance in a place; residence for a time.
  • n. A place of continuance; a dwelling; a habitation.
  • n. Delay: as, “fled away without abode,” Spenser.
  • n. Preterit of abide.
  • n. An omen; a prognostication; a foreboding.
  • To foreshow; prognosticate; forebode.
  • To be an omen; forebode: as, “this abodes sadly,” Dr. H. More, Decay of Christian Piety.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
  • n. housing that someone is living in
  • Cross Reference
    stay    to make abode    dwelling   
    Variant
    abide   
    Form
    aboding    abodement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    delay    sojourn    residence    dwelling    habitation    omen    bode    foreshow   
    Verb Stem
    abide   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rhode    bestowed    bestrode    blowed    bode    bowed    brode    busload    coad    code