Definitions for abode

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abode a·bode

Spelling: [uh-bohd]

IPA: /əˈboʊd/

Abode is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in abode (abdeo).

Definitions for abode

noun

1. a place in which a person resides; residence; dwelling; habitation; home.
2. an extended stay in a place; sojourn.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of abide.

Verb phrases

1. abide by, to act in accord with. to submit to; agree to: to remain steadfast or faithful to; keep:

verb (used with object)

1. to put up with; tolerate; stand:
2. to endure, sustain, or withstand without yielding or submitting:
3. to wait for; await:
4. to accept without opposition or question:
5. to pay the price or penalty of; suffer for.

verb (used without object)

1. to remain; continue; stay:
2. to have one's abode; dwell; reside:
3. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc.; last.

Origin of abode

1200-50; Middle English abood a waiting, delay, stay; akin to abide

Examples for abode

The Sultan of Brunei will not have a quasi-Islamist rebellion within the abode of Peace.

Asher continued on the sea-shore, and abode in his breaches.

Then, again, variety of climate should always go with stability of abode.

What would John Dewey have done if Mr. Chen had burst into his Chinese abode and asked for help?

Gilead abode beyond Jordan, and why did Dan remain in ships?

He could no longer trust to chance and delay against the dangers of that abode.

That fellow, the cousin Galloway, changes his place of abode like the Wandering Jew.

“That is not their real house,” Andrew says of a Kardashian abode.

He fought it with all the strength of him, and that was much, but ever it abode there.

English governesses tended to the children in Anand Bhavan – “abode of Happiness” – the palatial Nehru residence.