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/dwˈɛlɪŋ haʊs/ Listen

Dwelling house

noun

Housing that someone is living in. Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, habitation, home. "They raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

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"Dwelling house" Quotes from Famous Books

... separated from the rest of the dwelling house by a kind of corridor, bricked in, where the musicians were usually placed, for the obvious reason that the sun-burnt artists are passionately fond of ...

— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

... neighbouring hamlets. At one end of the town the fire broke out, and the flames ran Hastily all through the streets, impell'd by the draught they created. And the barns were consumed, where all the rich harvest was gather'd And all the streets as far as the market; the dwelling house also Of my father hard by was destroy'd, as likewise was this one. Little indeed could we save; I sat the sorrowful night through On the green of the town, protecting the beds and the boxes. Finally sleep overtook me, and when by the cool breeze of morning Which dies away when ...

— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe

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