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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABO'DE, pret. of abide
ABO'DE, n. [See Abide.]
1. Stay; continuance in a place; residence for a longer or shorter time.
2. A place of continuance; a dwelling; a habitation.
3. To make abode, to dwell or reside.
ABO'DE, v.t. [See Bode.] To foreshow.
ABO'DE, v.i. To be an omen

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences" [syn: residence, abode]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English abod, from abiden to abide Date: 13th century 1. obsolete wait, delay 2. a temporary stay ; sojourn 3. the place where one abides ; home

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a dwelling-place; one's home. 2 archaic a stay or sojourn. Etymology: verbal noun of ABIDE: cf. ride, rode, road 2. past of ABIDE.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abide A*bide", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Abode, formerly Abid; p. pr. & vb. n. Abiding.] [AS. [=a]b[=i]dan; pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + b[=i]dan to bide. See Bide.] 1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. --Gen. xxiv. 55. 3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. --1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. --Fielding. (b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abode A*bode", n. [See Bode, v. t.] An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. --Chapman.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abode A*bode", v. t. To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abode A*bode", v. i. To be ominous. [Obs.] --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abode A*bode", pret. of Abide.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abode A*bode", n. [OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide.] 1. Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] --Shak. And with her fled away without abode. --Spenser. 2. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. --Fielding. 3. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. --Wordsworth.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(abodes) 1. Your abode is the place where you live. (FORMAL) I went round the streets and found his new abode. N-COUNT: usu poss N 2. If someone has no fixed abode, they are homeless. (LEGAL) 30 per cent of psychiatric hospital beds are occupied by people of no fixed abode. PHRASE: oft of PHR

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-bod'. See ABIDE.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Habitation, dwelling, lodging, domicile, home, house, seat, place, quarters, headquarters, place of residence. 2. (Rare.) Continuance (in a place), stay, residence.

Moby Thesaurus

abiding, accommodation, area, bearings, bench mark, billet, cohabitation, commorancy, diggings, digs, district, domicile, dwelling, emplacement, habitancy, habitation, hole, home, house, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, latitude and longitude, lieu, living, locale, locality, location, locus, lodging, nesting, occupancy, occupation, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, quarters, region, residence, residency, residing, site, situation, situs, sojourning, spot, squatting, staying, staying over, stead, stopping, tenancy, whereabout, whereabouts