aboad

Noun (1)

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
   • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii
2. (dated) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
   • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]1661, John Fell Summary, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
3. (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
   • of no fixed abode

Noun (2)

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
   • High-thundering Juno's husband, stirs my spirit with true abodes.1865, George Chapman, edited by Richard Hooper, The Iliads of Homer, London: J.R. Smith, →OCLC, page 6

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