dwelling - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

dwelling (plural dwellings)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode

   The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.

   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 40:

     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; [...]

• “dwelling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From dwell +‎ -ing.

dwelling

1. present participle and gerund of dwell

dwelling

1. Alternative form of dwellynge