Synonyms for abode
əˈboʊdabode

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 5 votes

1. abode

   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:
   domicil, dwelling, fireside, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, home, house, ingleside, residence

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.2 / 5 votes

1. abode

   Synonyms:
   home, stay, placate, residence, domicile, habitation, lodging, berth, quarters, with the idea of permanence

   Antonyms:
   halt, perch, tent, bivouac, caravansary, with the idea of transience

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.6 / 12 votes

1. residence, abodenoun

   any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

   "a person can have several residences"

   Synonyms:
   abidance, dwelling, home, domicile, habitation, residency, hall, residence, mansion, manse, mansion house, dwelling house

2. 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, dwelling, home base, inhabitation, place, dwelling house, base, home, home plate, family, inhabitancy, house, habitation, residence, plate, nursing home, menage, household

Matched Categories

1. • Address
   • Housing

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. abodenoun

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

2. abodenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Rare.] continuance (in a place), stay, residence

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abodenoun

   Synonyms:
   residence, habitation, dwelling, domicile, sojourn

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

1. List of paraphrases for "abode":

   residence, roa, residency, domicile

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How to use abode in a sentence?

1. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

2. Omar Khayym:

   Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultn after Sultn with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

3. Regina Ip:

   Thereafter, Hong Kong Chinese who acquire a foreign nationality of their own free will, will be deemed to have lost Chinese nationality, in strict accordance with Article 9 of the Chinese Nationality Law, when they make a conscious decision to leave and, by implication, give up on Hong Kong, it is only right that they should be asked to make their choice -- China or a foreign country -- foreign citizenship or the right of abode and the right to vote in Hong Kong.

4. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

5. Martin Luther:

   Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.