In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition.
Source: tatoeba (23617)
Dwell
//dwɛl//
Synonyms for "dwell" (82 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (41)
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3 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
4 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
123 translations across 58 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- banoj verb (live, reside)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ναίω verb (live, reside)
- οἰκέω verb (live, reside)
Arabic
4 entries- أَقَامَ verb (live, reside)
- سَكَنَ verb (live, reside)
- سْكن verb (live, reside)
- قَطَنَ verb (live, reside)
Aragonese
1 entries- habitar verb (live, reside)
Armenian
1 entries- բնակել verb (live, reside)
Basque
1 entries- bizi izan verb (live, reside)
Belarusian
2 entries- жыць verb (live, reside)
- пражыва́ць verb (live, reside)
Bulgarian
3 entries- живе́я verb (live, reside)
- обита́вам verb (live, reside)
- спирам се на verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Catalan
1 entries- capficar-se verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎡᎯ verb (live, reside)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 住 verb (live, reside)
- 居住 verb (live, reside)
- 居留 verb (live, reside)
Czech
3 entries- bydlet verb (live, reside)
- probírat verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- rozebírat verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Danish
4 entries- bebo verb (live, reside)
- bo verb (live, reside)
- dvæle verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- forblive verb (live, reside)
Dutch
2 entries- rondhangen verb (live, reside)
- verblijven verb (live, reside)
Esperanto
1 entries- loĝi verb (live, reside)
Finnish
4 entries- asua verb (live, reside)
- asustaa verb (live, reside)
- kelata verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- oleskella verb (live, reside)
French
1 entries- résider verb (live, reside)
Galician
4 entries- habitar verb (live, reside)
- morar verb (live, reside)
- residir verb (live, reside)
- vivir verb (live, reside)
German
4 entries- leben verb (live, reside)
- verbleiben verb (live, reside)
- verweilen verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- wohnen verb (live, reside)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 verb (live, reside)
Greek
2 entries- αναλογίζομαι verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- τρώω κόλλημα verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Hungarian
1 entries- lakik verb (live, reside)
Indonesian
3 entries- berdiam verb (live, reside)
- mendiami verb (live, reside)
- tinggal verb (live, reside)
Ingrian
3 entries- assua verb (live, reside)
- ellää verb (live, reside)
- elustaa verb (live, reside)
Irish
2 entries- bheith i do chónaí verb (live, reside)
- cónaigh verb (live, reside)
Japanese
2 entries- 住む verb (live, reside)
- 居住する verb (live, reside)
Judeo-Italian
1 entries- אַלְבֵירְגַארֵי verb (live, reside)
Khmer
2 entries- នៅ verb (live, reside)
- រស់នៅ verb (live, reside)
Korean
2 entries- 거주하다 verb (live, reside)
- 살다 verb (live, reside)
Latin
2 entries- habito verb (live, reside)
- incolō verb (live, reside)
Latvian
3 entries- dzīvot verb (live, reside)
- gremdēties verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- mist verb (live, reside)
Middle English
2 entries- dwellen verb (live, reside)
- lenden verb (live, reside)
Mongolian
1 entries- суух verb (live, reside)
Māori
2 entries- noho verb (live, reside)
- rauroha verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- витати verb (live, reside)
Old English
1 entries- būan verb (live, reside)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوتورمق verb (live, reside)
Polish
2 entries- mieszkać verb (live, reside)
- zamieszkiwać verb (live, reside)
Portuguese
4 entries- habitar verb (live, reside)
- morar verb (live, reside)
- remoer verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- viver verb (live, reside)
Romani
1 entries- beśel verb (live, reside)
Romanian
3 entries- locui verb (live, reside)
- sta cu gândul verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- trăi verb (live, reside)
Russian
3 entries- жить verb (live, reside)
- обита́ть verb (live, reside)
- прожива́ть verb (live, reside)
Sanskrit
2 entries- क्षेति verb (live, reside)
- वसति verb (live, reside)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- còmhnaich verb (live, reside)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- boraviti verb (live, reside)
Slovene
1 entries- bivati verb (live, reside)
Spanish
4 entries- darle vueltas a verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
- habitar verb (live, reside)
- morar verb (live, reside)
- ponderar verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Swedish
4 entries- bo verb (live, reside)
- dväljas verb (live, reside)
- leva verb (live, reside)
- älta verb (to continue to think or talk about (something or someone))
Tausug
1 entries- hula verb (live, reside)
Telugu
1 entries- నివసించు verb (live, reside)
Thai
2 entries- อยู่ verb (live, reside)
- อาศัยอยู่ verb (live, reside)
Tocharian B
1 entries- walāk verb (live, reside)
Turkish
4 entries- eğleşmek verb (live, reside)
- ikamet etmek verb (live, reside)
- kalmak verb (live, reside)
- oturmak verb (live, reside)
Ukrainian
3 entries- жи́ти verb (live, reside)
- ме́шкати verb (live, reside)
- прожива́ти verb (live, reside)
Unami
1 entries- wiki verb (live, reside)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ở verb (live, reside)
Walloon
3 entries- dimani verb (live, reside)
- dimorer verb (live, reside)
- lodjî verb (live, reside)
Yiddish
1 entries- וווינען verb (live, reside)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Don't dwell on your past mistakes!
Source: tatoeba (23623)
Don't dwell on your past failures.
Source: tatoeba (23624)
Don't dwell too much upon the subject.
Source: tatoeba (43760)
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