From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
abode
n 1: any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a
person can have several residences" [syn: residence]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide
homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home,
domicile, habitation, dwelling house]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Abode \A*bode"\, v. t.
To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Abode \A*bode"\, v. i.
To be ominous. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Abode \A*bode"\,
pret. of Abide.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Abode \A*bode"\, n. [OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See
Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide.]
1. Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] --Shak.
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And with her fled away without abode. --Spenser.
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2. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
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He waxeth at your abode here. --Fielding.
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3. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place;
residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
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Come, let me lead you to our poor abode.
--Wordsworth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Abode \A*bode"\, n. [See Bode, v. t.]
An omen. [Obs.]
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High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with
true abodes. --Chapman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Abide \A*bide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Abode, formerly Abid;
p. pr. & vb. n. Abiding.] [AS. [=a]b[imac]dan; pref. [=a]-
(cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + b[imac]dan to
bide. See Bide.]
1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to
dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and
commonly with at or in before a place.
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Let the damsel abide with us a few days. --Gen.
xxiv. 55.
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3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to
continue; to remain.
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Let every man abide in the same calling. --1 Cor.
vii. 20.
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To abide by.
(a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain.
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The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by
what he said at first. --Fielding.
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(b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a
decision or an award.
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