Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

English Explorer

Anne Reid

I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.

English Actress

Donald Cargill

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

Scottish Clergyman

Kailash Kher

Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.

Indian Musician

Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

French Writer

Chanakya

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Indian Politician

Abu Bakr

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Leader

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

American Philosopher

Edmund Waller

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

English Poet

Ovid

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Roman Poet

Abode often implies a cozy, modest or cherished living space rather than just any place of residence.

Home Connotation

While acceptable in general use, 'abode' can sound slightly formal or old-fashioned in casual conversation.

Formality Level

'Abode' can refer to any living space, including apartments, trailers, or even temporary shelters.

Not Just Houses

In literature, 'abode' can have abstract meanings, referring to the state of affairs or some condition.

Literary Usage

'Abode', as a state or condition, often gives a text an archaic, classical tone.

Archaic Tone

When referring to appearance in literary contexts, 'abode' connotes a temporary or recent state.

Appearance Aspect

 What do we find? The oceanographers, when they go and look at these hydrothermal vents, they're teeming with life, regardless of whether the water is acidic or alkaline -- doesn't matter. So hydrothermal vents are a fabulous abode for life here on Earth.

3 moons and a planet...

 but none of that is here today and so the question is did Mars once look like the image on the Left covered in water presumably a place that could be an abode teeming with life much like our

A New Age of Exploration...

 aside land to shield it from fire only created permanent abodes for fire and that the effort to suppress all fire only create an ecological insurgency

Abode

Home Connotation

Formality Level

Not Just Houses

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