| abode | | |
| n. (location) | 1. abode, residence | any address at which you dwell more than temporarily.; "a person can have several residences" |
| ~ address | the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with. |
| ~ domicile, legal residence | (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time.; "what's his legal residence?" |
| ~ home, place | where you live at a particular time.; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home | housing that someone is living in.; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" |
| ~ bathroom, bath | a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet. |
| ~ bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, chamber | a room used primarily for sleeping. |
| ~ cliff dwelling | a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff.; "the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States" |
| ~ condo, condominium | one of the dwelling units in a condominium. |
| ~ den | a room that is comfortable and secluded. |
| ~ dinette | a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining. |
| ~ dining-room, dining room | a room used for dining. |
| ~ dressing room | a room in which you can change clothes. |
| ~ family room | a recreation room in a private house. |
| ~ fixer-upper | a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price). |
| ~ fireside, hearth | home symbolized as a part of the fireplace.; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" |
| ~ hermitage | the abode of a hermit. |
| ~ homestead | dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land. |
| ~ house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families.; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" |
| ~ housing, living accommodations, lodging | structures collectively in which people are housed. |
| ~ kitchen | a room equipped for preparing meals. |
| ~ lake dwelling, pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages. |
| ~ front room, living-room, living room, sitting room, parlor, parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax. |
| ~ indian lodge, lodge | any of various Native American dwellings. |
| ~ messuage | (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household. |
| ~ semi-detached house | a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side. |
| ~ vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation. |
| ~ yurt | a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing. |
| apartment | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. apartment, flat | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house. |
| ~ apartment building, apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments. |
| ~ bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting room | a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing). |
| ~ cold-water flat | an apartment without modern conveniences. |
| ~ duplex apartment, duplex | an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase. |
| ~ efficiency apartment | a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom. |
| ~ flatlet | a tiny flat. |
| ~ housing, living accommodations, lodging | structures collectively in which people are housed. |
| ~ kitchenette | small kitchen. |
| ~ maisonette, maisonnette | a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside. |
| ~ penthouse | an apartment located on the top floors of a building. |
| ~ railroad flat | an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them. |
| ~ studio apartment, studio | an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen. |
| ~ rooms, suite | apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel). |
| ~ walk-up, walk-up apartment | an apartment in a building without an elevator. |
| dwelling | | |
| habitat | | |
| n. (location) | 1. habitat, home ground | the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds" |
| ~ environs, surround, environment, surroundings | the area in which something exists or lives.; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" |
| ~ habitation | the native habitat or home of an animal or plant. |
| home | | |
| n. (location) | 1. home, place | where you live at a particular time.; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" |
| ~ abode, residence | any address at which you dwell more than temporarily.; "a person can have several residences" |
| ~ home away from home, home from home | a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home. |
| n. (location) | 2. home | the country or state or city where you live.; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" |
| ~ location | a point or extent in space. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. home, home base, home plate, plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score.; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ bag, base | a place that the runner must touch before scoring.; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" |
| n. (location) | 4. base, home | the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end. |
| ~ location | a point or extent in space. |
| n. (location) | 5. home | place where something began and flourished.; "the United States is the home of basketball" |
| ~ origin, source, root, rootage, beginning | the place where something begins, where it springs into being.; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" |
| n. (state) | 6. home | an environment offering affection and security.; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" |
| ~ environment | the totality of surrounding conditions.; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" |
| n. (group) | 7. family, home, house, household, menage | a social unit living together.; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" |
| ~ broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced. |
| ~ conjugal family, nuclear family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner. |
| ~ extended family | a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives. |
| ~ foster family | the family of a fosterling. |
| ~ foster home | a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency). |
| ~ menage a trois | household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations. |
| ~ social unit, unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group.; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
| n. (artifact) | 8. home, nursing home, rest home | an institution where people are cared for.; "a home for the elderly" |
| ~ institution | an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated. |
| v. (social) | 9. home | provide with, or send to, a home. |
| ~ domiciliate, house, put up | provide housing for.; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" |
| v. (motion) | 10. home | return home accurately from a long distance.; "homing pigeons" |
| ~ return | go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before.; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" |
| adj. | 11. home | used of your own ground.; "a home game" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| adj. (pertain) | 12. home | relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are.; "my home town" |
| adj. | 13. home, interior, internal, national | inside the country.; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" |
| ~ domestic | of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation.; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" |
| adv. | 14. home | at or to or in the direction of one's home or family.; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" |
| adv. | 15. home | on or to the point aimed at.; "the arrow struck home" |
| adv. | 16. home | to the fullest extent; to the heart.; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" |
| residence | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. residence | the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president).; "he refused to live in the governor's residence" |
| ~ court | the residence of a sovereign or nobleman.; "the king will visit the duke's court" |
| ~ deanery | the official residence of a dean. |
| ~ house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families.; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" |
| ~ manse | the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman). |
| ~ palace | official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign). |
| ~ parsonage, rectory, vicarage | an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector. |
| ~ cloister, religious residence | residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery). |
| ~ vatican, vatican palace | the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City. |
| ~ white house | the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States. |
| ~ mount vernon | the former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river. |
| n. (act) | 2. abidance, residence, residency | the act of dwelling in a place. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ lodging | the act of lodging. |
| ~ occupancy, tenancy | an act of being a tenant or occupant. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. hall, manse, mansion, mansion house, residence | a large and imposing house. |
| ~ house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families.; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" |
| ~ manor, manor house | the mansion of a lord or wealthy person. |
| ~ manor hall, hall | the large room of a manor or castle. |
| ~ castle, palace | a large and stately mansion. |
| ~ stately home | a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family. |
| cohabit | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. cohabit, live together, shack up | share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple. |
| ~ inhabit, live, populate, dwell | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| ~ miscegenate | marry or cohabit with a person of another race. |
| dwell | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. brood, dwell | think moodily or anxiously about something. |
| ~ worry, care | be concerned with.; "I worry about my grades" |
| v. (stative) | 2. consist, dwell, lie, lie in | originate (in).; "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" |
| ~ exist, be | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| v. (stative) | 3. dwell, inhabit, live, populate | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| ~ tenant | occupy as a tenant. |
| ~ neighbor, neighbour | live or be located as a neighbor.; "the neighboring house" |
| ~ lodge in, occupy, reside | live (in a certain place).; "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" |
| ~ domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack | make one's home in a particular place or community.; "may parents reside in Florida" |
| ~ people | furnish with people.; "The plains are sparsely populated" |
| ~ overpopulate | cause to have too great a population.; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" |
| ~ cohabit, live together, shack up | share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple. |
| ~ lodge | be a lodger; stay temporarily.; "Where are you lodging in Paris?" |
| ~ bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent | live in or as if in a tent.; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" |
| ~ nest | inhabit a nest, usually after building.; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ room, board | live and take one's meals at or in.; "she rooms in an old boarding house" |
| v. (stative) | 4. dwell, inhabit | exist or be situated within.; "Strange notions inhabited her mind" |
| ~ exist, be | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| v. (communication) | 5. dwell, harp | come back to.; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" |
| ~ ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | to say, state, or perform again.; "She kept reiterating her request" |
| inhabit | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. inhabit | be present in.; "sweet memories inhabit this house" |
| ~ infest | live on or in a host, as of parasites. |
| ~ infest, overrun, invade | occupy in large numbers or live on a host.; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| occupy | | |
| v. (social) | 1. busy, occupy | keep busy with.; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" |
| ~ work | exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity.; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor" |
| ~ putter, potter | work lightly.; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden" |
| ~ smatter, play around, dabble | work with in an amateurish manner.; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money" |
| v. (stative) | 2. lodge in, occupy, reside | live (in a certain place).; "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" |
| ~ move in | occupy a place.; "The crowds are moving in" |
| ~ stay at | reside temporarily.; "I'm staying at the Hilton" |
| ~ squat | occupy (a dwelling) illegally. |
| ~ inhabit, live, populate, dwell | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| ~ crash | occupy, usually uninvited.; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend" |
| v. (stative) | 3. fill, occupy | occupy the whole of.; "The liquid fills the container" |
| ~ crowd | fill or occupy to the point of overflowing.; "The students crowded the auditorium" |
| ~ take up | take up time or space.; "take up the slack" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| v. (stative) | 4. concern, interest, occupy, worry | be on the mind of.; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift" |
| v. (competition) | 5. invade, occupy | march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" |
| ~ attack, assail | launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" |
| ~ infest, overrun | invade in great numbers.; "the roaches infested our kitchen" |
| v. (possession) | 6. occupy, take, use up | require (time or space).; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" |
| ~ deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume, eat | use up (resources or materials).; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
| ~ expend, use | use up, consume fully.; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| ~ be | spend or use time.; "I may be an hour" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. absorb, engage, engross, occupy | consume all of one's attention or time.; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" |
| ~ involve | occupy or engage the interest of.; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" |
| ~ consume | engage fully.; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" |
| ~ rivet | hold (someone's attention).; "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists" |
| ~ interest | excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of. |
| v. (social) | 8. fill, occupy, take | assume, as of positions or roles.; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne" |
| ~ assume, take up, strike, take | occupy or take on.; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" |
| ~ do work, work | be employed.; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" |
| reside | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack | make one's home in a particular place or community.; "may parents reside in Florida" |
| ~ rusticate | live in the country and lead a rustic life. |
| ~ inhabit, live, populate, dwell | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| v. (stative) | 2. repose, reside, rest | be inherent or innate in. |
| ~ inhere in, attach to | be part of.; "This problem inheres in the design" |
| stay | | |
| n. (act) | 1. stay | continuing or remaining in a place or state.; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court" |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ sojourn, visit | a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest). |
| ~ layover, stopover, stop | a brief stay in the course of a journey.; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" |
| n. (state) | 2. arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage | the state of inactivity following an interruption.; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" |
| ~ inaction, inactiveness, inactivity | the state of being inactive. |
| ~ countercheck | a check that restrains another check. |
| ~ logjam | any stoppage attributable to unusual activity.; "the legislation ran into a logjam" |
| n. (communication) | 3. stay | a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted.; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" |
| ~ decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order | a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).; "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" |
| ~ stay of execution | an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. stay | a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset). |
| ~ strip, slip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. stay | (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar. |
| ~ sailing, seafaring, navigation | the work of a sailor. |
| ~ backstay | a stay that supports the back of something. |
| ~ bracing, brace | a structural member used to stiffen a framework. |
| ~ forestay | an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast. |
| v. (change) | 6. remain, rest, stay | stay the same; remain in a certain state.; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" |
| ~ keep out | remain outside. |
| ~ sit tight | maintain the same position; wait it out.; "Let's not make a decision--let's sit tight" |
| ~ stay together, stick together | be loyal to one another, especially in times of trouble.; "The two families stuck together throughout the war" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ stand | remain inactive or immobile.; "standing water" |
| ~ stay fresh, keep | fail to spoil or rot.; "These potatoes keep for a long time" |
| ~ be | to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form.; "let her be" |
| v. (motion) | 7. stay, stay put, stick, stick around | stay put (in a certain place).; "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" |
| ~ stay in place | be stationary. |
| v. (stative) | 8. abide, bide, stay | dwell.; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ visit | stay with as a guest.; "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month" |
| ~ outstay, overstay | stay too long.; "overstay or outstay one's welcome" |
| ~ stay on, remain, stay, continue | continue in a place, position, or situation.; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" |
| v. (stative) | 9. continue, remain, stay, stay on | continue in a place, position, or situation.; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ abide, bide, stay | dwell.; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" |
| ~ hold over | continue a term of office past the normal period of time. |
| v. (motion) | 10. stay | remain behind.; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" |
| v. (change) | 11. delay, detain, stay | stop or halt.; "Please stay the bloodshed!" |
| ~ retard, delay, check | slow the growth or development of.; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" |
| v. (stative) | 12. persist, remain, stay | stay behind.; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" |
| ~ stick | endure.; "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life" |
| ~ linger | remain present although waning or gradually dying.; "Her perfume lingered on" |
| v. (stative) | 13. last out, outride, ride out, stay | hang on during a trial of endurance.; "ride out the storm" |
| ~ outstay | surpass in staying power.; "They outstayed their competitors" |
| v. (social) | 14. stay | stop a judicial process.; "The judge stayed the execution order" |
| ~ kibosh, block, halt, stop | stop from happening or developing.; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" |
| v. (contact) | 15. stay | fasten with stays. |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| v. (consumption) | 16. appease, quell, stay | overcome or allay.; "quell my hunger" |
| ~ fulfil, fulfill, satisfy, meet, fill | fill or meet a want or need. |
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