If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the
house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming,
the house protects the dreamer, the house allows
one to dream in peace.
—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Home is where one starts from.
—T.S. Eliot
Dwelling
Dwell"ing, n. Habitation; place or house in which
a person lives; abode; domicile.
Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. --Jer.
xlix. 33.
God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just
men. --Milton.
Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. --Tennyson.
Dwelling house, a house
intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction
from a store, office, or other building.
Dwelling place, place
of residence.
Source:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
© 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Dwelling
Dwell Dwell, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dwelled,
usually contracted into Dwelt(?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Dwelling.]
[OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan
to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin
to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dv["a]ljas
to dwell, Dan. dv[ae]le to linger, and to E. dull.
See Dull, and cf. Dwale.]
1. To delay; to linger. [Obs.]
2. To abide; to remain; to continue.
I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. —Shak.
Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. —Wordsworth.
3. To abide as a permanent resident, or for a
time; to live in a place; to reside.
The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have
possessions. —Peacham.
The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the
hall where the lord of the domain resides. —C.
J. Smith.
To dwell in, to abide
in (a place); hence, to depend on. ``My hopes
in heaven to dwell.'' —Shak.
To dwell on or upon,
to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed
with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell
upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note.
They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks
and language, fixed in amazement. —Buckminster.
Syn: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside;
continue; stay; rest.
Source:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
© 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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