Abode
noun
A place where someone lives.
My humble abode is not much, but I call it home
Often appears as...
- humble abode
- permanent abode
noun
The condition or state of something.
Is this the guise in which she lately abode?
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Literary
noun
A place where someone lives.
My humble abode is not much, but I call it home
Often appears as...
- humble abode
- permanent abode
noun
The condition or state of something.
Is this the guise in which she lately abode?
Usage tips
Literary
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Pro Tip 1/3Home Connotation
Abode often implies a cozy, modest or cherished living space rather than just any place of residence.
After traveling for weeks, I'm looking forward to returning to my peaceful abode.
Pro Tip 2/3Formality Level
While acceptable in general use, 'abode' can sound slightly formal or old-fashioned in casual conversation.
You must visit my new abode sometime.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Houses
'Abode' can refer to any living space, including apartments, trailers, or even temporary shelters.
The refugees constructed a makeshift abode to shield themselves from the cold.
Compare with
domiciledwellhabitathomehouselodgequarterresidenceshelter
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3 moons and a planet...
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.
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A New Age of Exploration...
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
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How fire shapes...
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
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3 moons and a planet...
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.
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A New Age of Exploration...
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
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How fire shapes...
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
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Quote examples
Isabella Bird
English Explorer
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.
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Anne Reid
English Actress
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.
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Donald Cargill
Scottish Clergyman
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.
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Kailash Kher
Indian Musician
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.
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Voltaire
French Writer
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.
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Chanakya
Indian Politician
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.
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Abu Bakr
Leader
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Edmund Waller
English Poet
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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Ovid
Roman Poet
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
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.
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Anne Reid
English Actress
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.
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Donald Cargill
Scottish Clergyman
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.
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Kailash Kher
Indian Musician
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.
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Voltaire
French Writer
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.
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Chanakya
Indian Politician
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.
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Abu Bakr
Leader
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Edmund Waller
English Poet
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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Ovid
Roman Poet
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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