He is always dwelling on the pleasures of the past.
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Dwelling
//ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ//
Synonyms for "dwelling" (71 found)
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Related words (35)
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2 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
105 translations across 54 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- banesë noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- banë noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- οἴκημα noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- οἴκησις noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Arabic
3 entries- سكنة noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- سَكَن noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- مَنْزِل noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- ev noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- mənzil noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Basque
2 entries- bizileku noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- bizitoki noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Belarusian
1 entries- жыллё noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Bengali
2 entries- মকান noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- মঞ্জিল noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Bulgarian
1 entries- жи́лище noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Catalan
2 entries- habitatge noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- vivenda noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- ˀu·ču noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 住宅 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- 住所 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Czech
1 entries- obydlí noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Danish
2 entries- bolig noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- bopæl noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Dutch
2 entries- woning noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- woonst noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Esperanto
1 entries- loĝejo noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Finnish
2 entries- asumus noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- asunto noun (house or place in which a person lives)
French
2 entries- domicile noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- habitation noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Galician
4 entries- eido noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- lar noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- moradía noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- moranza noun (house or place in which a person lives)
German
4 entries- Behausung noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- Wohnsitz noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- Wohnstätte noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- Wohnung noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Hebrew
4 entries- דִּיּוּר noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- דירה noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- מגורים noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- שכן noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Hungarian
4 entries- lak noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- lakás noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- lakóhely noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- otthon noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Ido
1 entries- lojeyo noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Italian
3 entries- abitazione noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- dimora noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- residenza noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Japanese
3 entries- 住宅 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- 住居 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- 居留 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Korean
3 entries- 거류 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- 주거 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- 주택 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Latin
1 entries- domicilium noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Low German
3 entries- Wahnen noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- Wahnsitt noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- Wahnung noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Macedonian
1 entries- живеа́лиште noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠪᠣᠣ noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Middle English
2 entries- dwellynge noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- herberwe noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Māori
1 entries- tuohunga noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Norman
1 entries- d'meuthe noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Old Norse
2 entries- bo noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- bú noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰋 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Orok
1 entries- дуку noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- مكان noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Pashto
2 entries- خونه noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- کور noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wonunk noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Polish
1 entries- mieszkanie noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Portuguese
2 entries- domicílio noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- moradia noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Romanian
2 entries- domiciliu noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- locuință noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Russian
2 entries- жили́ще noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- жильё noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- còmhnaidh noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Slovak
1 entries- obydlie noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Slovene
2 entries- bivališče noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- domovanje noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Spanish
4 entries- casa noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- domicilio noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- morada noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- residencia noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Swedish
2 entries- boning noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- bostad noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Thai
3 entries- ชุมรุม noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- ทำเนียบ noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- เวสน์ noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Turkish
2 entries- ev noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- konut noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎎𐎌𐎋𐎐𐎚 noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Ukrainian
2 entries- житло́ noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- поме́шкання noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chổ ở noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Walloon
2 entries- dimorance noun (house or place in which a person lives)
- lodjisse noun (house or place in which a person lives)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Source: tatoeba (907495)
If you are hoping in what may happen without committed action, then stop. You're just dwelling in wishful thinking.
Source: tatoeba (1502334)
There's no point in dwelling on details.
Source: tatoeba (3986071)
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