abode
UK/əˈbəʊd//əˈboʊd/
abode noun: act of waiting; delay. Also the simple past and past participle of abide.
Noun (1)
abode (plural abodes)
- 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
- 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
- You behold, Sir, how he waxeth Wroth at your Abode here.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume 2, London: Millar, →OCLC, page 289
- A residence, dwelling or habitation.
- of no fixed abode
- humble abode
Noun (2)
abode (plural abodes)
- 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
Verb
abode (third-person singular simple present abodes, present participle aboding, simple past and past participle aboded)
Also used as
abode is also the simple past and past participle of abide.
abode meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Sanskrit and Arabic
abode in Tamil
- obsolete: act of waiting
- காத்திருப்பு kāttiruppu
- stay or continuance in a place; sojourn
- தங்கு taṅku
- slightly dated: residence
- உறைவிடம் uṟaiviṭam
abode in Bengali
- slightly dated: residence
- মকান mokan
abode in Sanskrit
- slightly dated: residence
- ओकस् okas, परिष्ठिति pariṣṭhiti
abode in Arabic
- obsolete: act of waiting
- بَقَاء baqāʔ
- stay or continuance in a place; sojourn
- إِقَامَة ʔiqāma
- slightly dated: residence
- دَار dār
More languagesFewer languages
- abode in Indonesian
- baka, kekal
- abode in Persian
- بودگاه
Examples of abode in a sentence
- They returned to their respective places of abode.
- To a man of honour a kick is noting, a blow is noting, de soul is de abode of glory, honour, pride.
- It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Synonyms of abode
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Forms of abode
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | abodes |
| alternative form (obsolete) | aboad |
| alternative form (obsolete) | abood |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | abodes |
| present participle | aboding |
| past participle | aboded |
| past | aboded |
Origin of abode
From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.
From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).
Words formed from abode
Phrases with abode
Words that rhyme with abode
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- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about abode
- What does abode mean?
- Abode means act of waiting; delay.
- What is abode in Tamil?
- Abode in Tamil is காத்திருப்பு (kāttiruppu), தங்கு (taṅku), உறைவிடம் (uṟaiviṭam). See Abode meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is abode?
- Abode can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce abode?
- Abode is pronounced /əˈbəʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of abode?
- The plural of abode is abodes.
Words near abode in the dictionary
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