Antonyms 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 antonyms: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. dwellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   residence, domicile, house, abode

How to use dwelling in a sentence?

1. John Berger:

   One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

2. Shirley MacLaine:

   Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

3. 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.

4. Lisa Monaco:

   In the wake of a number of recent tragedies, law enforcement around the nation is reexamining the way it engages with individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system, i am directing the Department's law enforcement components to revise their policies to explicitly prohibit the use of chokeholds and the carotid restraint technique unless deadly force is authorized, and to limit the circumstances in which agents may seek to enter a dwelling pursuant to a warrant without complying with the' knock and announce' rule.

5. Norman Cousins:

   A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

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