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abiding-places

abiding-places is the plural of abiding-place.

Meaning of abiding-place

Noun

abiding-place (plural abiding-places)

  1. The place where one abides; a permanent dwelling-place.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abiding-place.
  2. a place of rest; a resting-place.
    • [H]e determined (with an eye rather to heart-interests than to increasing his professional practice) to make, as before, the castle itself his office, studio, and chief abiding place till the works were fairly in progress.1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881...

Questions about abiding-places

What is abiding-places the plural of?
Abiding-places is the plural of abiding-place.

Words near abiding-places in the dictionary

  1. abiding
  2. abiding by
  3. abiding place
  4. abiding places
  5. abiding-place
  6. abiding-places
  7. abidingly
  8. abidingness
  9. abidings
  10. Abidjan
  11. Abidjani

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