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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dwelling
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dwelling house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ As the scheme applies to nearly all new dwellings, the Act is usually limited to alterations and conversions.
▪ However, the Act did not apply to new dwellings built after 1919 or to dwellings converted to flats after that date.
▪ As almost 12,000 houses had been started by 1987, the overall target was raised to 25,000 new dwellings.
▪ However, since the 1950s some 226 new dwellings have been built.
private
▪ Over 2800 private sector dwellings were built between 1931 and 1940.
▪ Even private dwellings follow the same pattern.
▪ Public or private - the dwelling exception Under the previous law, the offence could be committed in public only.
▪ It was incorporated by the architect, Alexander Skirving, into a private dwelling house he was building in Langside Avenue.
▪ In order to exclude domestic disputes, there is a proviso that the offence can not be committed inside a private dwelling.
▪ It has now been sold and is a private dwelling and pottery workshop.
▪ Safety glazing is effective but the high cost sometimes prohibits its use in private dwellings.
small
▪ A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
▪ He made a pass across the small cluster of dwellings, wheeled and dipped down for a second pass.
▪ Various small dwellings pressed against its sides like the farrow of a sow.
▪ I entered one of the roofless, small dwellings.
■ NOUN
house
▪ A dwelling house was let at the rent of 16s. 5d. per week.
▪ It was incorporated by the architect, Alexander Skirving, into a private dwelling house he was building in Langside Avenue.
▪ Tenby Tudor Merchant's House A beautifully furnished late medieval dwelling house near the harbour.
place
▪ It was not designed as a dwelling place in the first instance.
▪ But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now.
▪ It was economical, thought Lydia, and reassuring to make your dwelling place of the same indigenous material as your grave.
▪ Tell me, he said, your ideal dwelling place.
▪ Any emptying should not involve the contents being taken through a dwelling place or place of work other than an open covered space.
■ VERB
build
▪ Many mages build their dwellings along these channels and many places of power occur where the lines intersect.
▪ When land had been apportioned, each family built their own dwelling.
convert
▪ It was not long before the empty site was converted into dwellings.
▪ They in turn sold the property, which has now been converted into a dwelling.
▪ But it would take 10 to 20 years to convert every dwelling.
▪ A fire destroyed some parts of the western end, and then with more rebuilding it was converted into four dwellings.
▪ The former was converted into a dwelling during the 1920s; the latter two have both been demolished.
▪ By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Building models found in various places make explicit the connection between the Goddess and temples or dwellings.
▪ By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
▪ In the morning sunlight Dent was no longer a fantasy but a solid and compact cluster of dwellings of a past age.
▪ It is not surprising, therefore, that by the 1970s, more of the newly built dwellings were privately built.
▪ Most of them are single-family dwellings, which is like calling the Taj Mahal nice digs.
▪ The Housing Act 1988 is likely to reduce the stock of public-sector dwellings substantially.
▪ Various small dwellings pressed against its sides like the farrow of a sow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dwelling

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.

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 To dwell 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dwelling

"place of residence," mid-14c., verbal noun from dwell (v.).

Wiktionary
dwelling

Etymology 1 n. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Etymology 2

vb. (present participle of dwell English)

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WordNet
dwelling

n. housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house]

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Wikipedia
Dwelling

In law, a dwelling (also residence, abode) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home, such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat or other 'substantial' structure. A dwelling typically includes nearby outbuildings, sheds etc. within the curtilage of the property, excluding any ' open fields beyond'. It has significance in relation to search and seizure, conveyancing of real property, burglary, trespass, and land use planning.

Dwelling (Melissa Greener album)

Dwelling, the second album by American singer-songwriter Melissa Greener, was released on 12 January 2010. The album was produced by John Jennings who has produced several albums for Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was recorded and mixed by Jennings at Red Hill in Charlottesville, Virginia. The album cover's photography and art was by Traci Goudie.

One of the tracks on the album, "Bullets to Bite", won first prize in the folk category of the 2009 USA Songwriting Competition. Greener performed "Bullets to Bite" in episode 13 in series 1 of the television documentary Troubadour, TX, first aired on 10 February 2012.

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Usage examples of "dwelling".

They passed from street to street among fair and spacious dwellings, set in amaranthine gardens, and adorned with an infinitely varied beauty of divine simplicity.

I was on thorns, and I tried everything to avoid that subject, and to lead the conversation into a different channel, for the amorous particulars, on which she was dwelling with apparent delight, vexed me greatly, and spite causing coldness, I was afraid of not playing my part very warmly in the amorous contest which was at hand.

Principle not dwelling in the higher regions, one not powerful enough to ensure the permanence of the existences in which it is exhibited, one which in its coming into being and in its generative act is but an imitation of an antecedent Kind, and, as we have shown, cannot at every point possess the unchangeable identity of the Intellectual Realm.

Our main force would attack from all entries to the dwelling, a second force remaining without, in the darkness, to see to any attackers attempting our rear.

I, attempting in vain to place what little I had seen of the dwelling in its proper place.

Surely did I begin to believe they meant themselves to be seen, and yet, when a bloodied male appeared from the side of the dwelling, to stagger and fall nearly upon them, they quickly hugged the ground as though attempting invisibility.

As she walked along the now gas-lit streets, she found her mind dwelling persistently--not on the inquest at which she had been present, not even on The Avenger, but on his victims.

High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.

If it had not been for the brave aid of a French farmer, dwelling across the river, who occasionally, on dark nights, smuggled scanty supplies to the beleaguered garrison, they would have been forced by starvation to a surrender.

She knew she would never be able to convince Cole that Bianco had any redeeming qualities, so there was no point dwelling on the issue.

But yet forthwith returning to the inward impression of my sweetest obiect, stil dwelling in the secret of my heart, I fell into blobering teares, for the losse of two so worthie iewels.

The east side of Broadway, during the rule of the Dutch, was thickly built up with dwellings of but one room, little better than hovels.

They were held by the wax and exuded byssus of the home-grubs, colossal maggoting larvae that the khepri used to reshape their dwellings.

I would get up boldly in the course of the night, and drawing the slide, issue from the house, and pretend that my object was merely to procure a drink from the calabash, which always stood without the dwelling on the corner of the pi-pi.

During the warmer seasons the River People lived on a floating dock moored just below, but in winter they moved up to the high terrace and shared the dwellings of ceremonially joined cross-cousins.