Meaning of Dwelling | Babel Free
ˈdwɛl.ɪŋEquivalents
Examples
“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.”
“I was so thrilled to see⟳ a live⟳ bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover⟳ of darkness to feast on human blood.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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