Synonyms for dwelling
ˈdwɛl ɪŋdwelling

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 9 votes

1. dwelling

   Abode, dwelling, and habitation are used with little difference of meaning to denote the place where one habitually lives; abode and habitation belong to the poetic or elevated style. Even dwelling is not used in familiar speech; a person says "my house," "my home," or more formally "my residence." Home, from the Anglo-Saxon, denoting originally a dwelling, came to mean an endeared dwelling as the scene of domestic love and happy and cherished family life, a sense to which there is an increasing tendency to restrict the word — desirably so, since we have other words to denote the mere dwelling-place; we say "The wretched tenement could not be called home," or "The humble cabin was dear to him as the home of his childhood."

   Home's not merely four square walls,
   Tho with pictures hung and gilded;
   Home is where affection calls —
   Where its shrine the heart has builded.
   

   Thus the word comes to signify any place of rest and peace, and especially heaven, as the soul's peaceful and eternal dwelling-place.

   Synonyms:
   abode, domicil, fireside, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, home, house, ingleside, residence

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.3 / 4 votes

1. dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling housenoun

   housing that someone is living in

   "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

   Synonyms:
   rest home, legal residence, domicile, home base, inhabitation, place, dwelling house, base, abode, home, home plate, family, inhabitancy, house, habitation, residence, plate, nursing home, menage, household

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1. inhabitance

   in a sense, it may be.

   human dwelling

   Submitted by anonymous on September 29, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 5 votes

1. dwellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   habitation, abode, residence, lodging, quarters, domicile, home, place of residence, place of abode, dwelling-place, house

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1. dwellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   residence, domicile, house, abode

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "dwelling":

   housing, accommodation, shelter, habitation, 'habitation, residential, home, logement, dwellings, residence, lodging

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1. Margo DeMello:

   Rabbits are sometimes disappointing especially when you buy them for your child, they're ground-dwelling and they do not want to be held and carried around by a kid.

2. Elliot Rodger:

   the brute will then invite the girl back to his place of dwelling, where he will achieve insertion. He will experience delights so heavenly, so incredible... delights, that have been so cruelly denied to me

3. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco:

   'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said. 'It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'

4. William Blake:

   Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

5. Gordana Biernat:

   You do not become outstanding by dwelling on your weaknesses. You become outstanding by focusing on your strengths.