Abode Definition

ə-bōd
abodes
noun
abodes
A dwelling place; a home.
American Heritage
A place where one lives or stays; home; residence.
Webster's New World
The act of abiding; a sojourn.
American Heritage
, Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
He waxeth at your abode here.
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1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, The Celebrity.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
Wiktionary
verb
Webster's New World
A dwelling, home, or other fixed place where a person resides. Past tense and past participle of abide.
Webster's New World Law

Simple past tense and past participle of abide.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage. [Attested from the late 16th century to the mid 17th century.]

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(intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous. [Attested from the mid 17th century to the late 17th century.]

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Other Word Forms of Abode

Noun

Singular:
abode
Plural:
abodes

Origin of Abode

  • From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of vowel, compare abode, preterit of abide.

    From Wiktionary

  • From an alteration with bode and Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English abod home from abiden to wait abide

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • a- +‎ bode (“presage, portend, announce”)

    From Wiktionary

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