Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: abode
IPA transcription: [əb'oʊd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: residence, abode
    Meaning: any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences"
  • Synonyms: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling_house
    Meaning: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
Usage examples
  • And when he was nigh the cross he there abode still.
  • Here Janshah abode, Sultaning over them, for a year and a half.
  • The heavens, the upper regions, are in every religion the supposed abode of the divine.
  • So, too, our starving Hurons were driven out of a town which had become an abode of horror.
  • Yon hollow trunk, That with its hoary head incurv'd salutes The passing wave, must be the tyrant's fort And dread abode.
  • Among the marbles white a cavern had For his abode; whence to behold the stars And sea, the view was not cut off from him.
  • The deed which transferred to him the possession of Woodbine Cottage was speedily executed, and he took up his abode there.
  • It is an oval of exquisite white muslin, a diaphanous abode wherein the mother must make a long stay to watch over the brood.
  • But I must respectfully remind you that the expenses attendant upon taking possession of my humble abode have been very heavy.
  • The abode of my fathers, which I was now approaching, was situated in a glen, or narrow valley, which ran up among those hills.