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abiding place

abiding place is the alternative form 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...

Forms of abiding place

pluralabiding places

Questions about abiding place

What is abiding place the alternative form of?
Abiding place is the alternative form of abiding-place.

Words near abiding place in the dictionary

  1. abidest
  2. abideth
  3. abidin'
  4. abiding
  5. abiding by
  6. abiding place
  7. abiding places
  8. abiding-place
  9. abiding-places
  10. abidingly
  11. abidingness

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