dwelling

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

   The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.

   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, Enoch Arden:

     Philip's dwelling fronted on the street.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:abode

Derived terms

• dwellinghouse
• dwelling place
• lake dwelling: prehistoric structure

Translations

a place or house in which a person lives

Arabic: مَنْزِل‎ (ar) m (manzil), سَكَن‎ m (sakan) Moroccan Arabic: سكْنة‎ f (səkna) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: mənzil (az), ev (az) Basque: bizileku (eu), bizitoki (eu) Belarusian: жыллё n (žylljó) Bulgarian: жи́лище (bg) n (žílište) Catalan: habitatge (ca), vivenda Central Sierra Miwok: ˀu·ču- Chinese: Mandarin: 住宅 (zh) (zhùzhái), 住所 (zh) (zhùsuǒ) Czech: obydlí (cs) n Dutch: woning (nl), woonst (nl) f Esperanto: loĝejo (eo) Finnish: asunto (fi), asumus (fi) French: domicile (fr) m, habitation (fr) f Galician: eido m, vivenda (gl) f, moranza f, moradía f, soxorno m, lar (gl) m German: Wohnsitz (de) m, Wohnung (de) f, Behausung (de), Wohnstätte Greek: Ancient: οἴκημα n (oíkēma), οἴκησις f (oíkēsis) Hebrew: (please verify) שכן‎ (he) (shechen) Hungarian: lak (hu), lakás (hu) Ido: lojeyo (io) Italian: abitazione (it) f, residenza (it) f, dimora (it) f

Japanese: 居留 (きょりゅう, kyoryū), 住居 (ja) (じゅうきょ, jūkyo), 住宅 (ja) (じゅうたく, jūtaku) Korean: 주거 (ko) (jugeo), 주택 (ko) (jutaek), 거류 (ko) (georyu) Low German: German Low German: Wahnung f, Wahnen f, Wahnsitt m Macedonian: живеалиште n (živealište) Maori: tuohunga Norman: d'meuthe f Old Norse: (Eastern dialect) bo, (Western dialect) bú Old Turkic: 𐰋‎ (eb) Pashto: کور‎ m (kor), خونه‎ (ps) f (xuna) Polish: mieszkanie (pl) n Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m, moradia (pt) f Romanian: locuință (ro) f, domiciliu (ro) n Russian: жили́ще (ru) n (žilíšče), жильё (ru) n (žilʹjó) Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh f Slovak: obydlie n Slovene: bivališče n Spanish: domicilio (es), morada (es), residencia (es), vasa Thai: ชุมรุม, ทำเนียบ (th) (tam-nîiap), เวสน์ Turkish: ev (tr), konut (tr) Ukrainian: житло́ n (žytló), поме́шкання (uk) n (poméškannja) Vietnamese: chổ ở Walloon: dimorance (wa) f, lodjisse (wa) m

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.