noun
- Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily.
- usage: "a person can have several residences"
- synonyms: residence
- Housing that someone is living in.
- usage: "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
- synonyms: dwelling, home, domicile, habitation, dwelling house
verb
- Dwell.
- usage: "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer-the day is still young"
- Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
- usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
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