dwelling
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
- //ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ//
A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.
substantivo
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A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.
The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, / The latest house to landward; but behind, / With one small gate that open'd on the waste, / Flourish'd a little garden square and wall'd; [...]
The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
Etimologia
From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.
verbo
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Também uma forma de dwellpresent participle and gerund of dwell
Etimologia
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Formas
- plural
- dwellings
dwelling · A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.
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