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

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1. List of paraphrases for "dwelling":

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

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1. Richard Evelyn Byrd:

   Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

2. Daniel Field:

   It may have taken on the order of 100 years for the' fern spike' to begin, and about 1,000 years for forest communities to rebound, once forests were back, the ancestors of today's modern tree-dwelling birds could -- and did -- move into the trees. By a couple of millions of years after the asteroid impact, we have direct evidence of arboreal fossil birds.

3. Herodotus:

   The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

4. Bertolt Brecht:

   Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

5. Josh Ewing:

   You could just walk right up to this 800-900 cliff dwelling.