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dwelling

noun
/ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.

  1. inherited from dwellynge

Definitions

  1. A house or place in which a person lives

    A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.

    • 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; [...]

  2. present participle and gerund of dwell

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dwelling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dwelling02house03accommodations04accommodation05travellers06traveller07abode08habitation

A definitional loop anchored at dwelling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at dwelling

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA