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Abode

//əˈbəʊd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Act of waiting; delay. obsolete

    "Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode."

  2. 2
    An omen; a foretelling. obsolete

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

  3. 3
    housing that someone is living in wordnet
  4. 4
    Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. dated

    "During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]"

  5. 5
    any address at which you dwell more than temporarily wordnet
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  1. 6
    A residence, dwelling or habitation. formal

    "of no fixed abode"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of abide form-of, participle, past

    "The fine, soundless pulse of this game was in the air for our young woman while they remained in the shop. While they remained? They remained all day; their presence continued and abode with her, was in everything she did till nightfall...."

  2. 2
    To bode; to foreshow; to presage. obsolete, transitive

    "The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time"

  3. 3
    To be ominous. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.

Etymology 2

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 nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.

Etymology 3

From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).

Etymology 4

From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).

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