What is "abode"

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. [1913 Webster] Followed by by: To abide by.

   1. To stand to; to adhere; to maintain.

      The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first.
      --Fielding.

   2. To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.

Abode \A*bode"\, pret. of Abide.

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.

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

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

Abode \A*bode"\, n. [See Bode, v. t.] An omen. [Obs.]

High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes.
--Chapman.

mid-13c., "action of waiting," verbal noun identical with Old English abad, past participle of abiden "to abide" (see abide), used as a verbal noun. The present-to-preterite vowel change is consistent with an Old English class I strong verb (ride/rode, etc.). Meaning "habitual residence" is first attested 1570s.

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) Act of waiting; delay. (Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17^th century.)(reference-book editor=Brown, Lesley title=The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary origyear=1933 edition=5th year=2003 publisher=Oxford University Press location=Oxford, UK isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 pages=6) 2 (context obsolete English) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. (Attested from (1350 to 1470) to the mid 18^th century.) vb. (en-past of: abide) Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) An omen; a foretelling. (Attested from the late 16^th century to the late 17^th century.) vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To bode; to foreshow; to presage. (Attested from the late 16^th century to the mid 17^th century.) 2 (context intransitive obsolete English) To be ominous. (Attested from the mid 17^th century to the late 17^th century.)

1. v. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: bide, stay]

2. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, suffer, put up]

3. [also: abode]

1. n. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences" [syn: residence]

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, habitation, dwelling house]

See abide

Abode may refer to:

• House, a human-built dwelling with enclosing walls, a floor, and a roof
  • Right of abode
• World of Two Moons aka Abode, a fictional Earth-type planet featured in the comic book Elfquest