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# dwelling

«dwelling» in Mova's school dictionary: **A house, flat or other place where people live; a home** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dwelling, dwellings); verb (present participle of «dwell»: dwell, dwells, dwelt or dwelled, dwelling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) A house, flat or other place where people live; a home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#m1)

2) Living in a place (cave-dwelling animals). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#m2)

3) «Dwelling on»: thinking or talking about something, often something sad, for too long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

A formal word in history (early dwellings, Stone Age dwellings), geography and official forms; a stiff exam word for «house». In feelings and stories, «don't keep dwelling on it». Phrases: «a dwelling place», «cave dwellings», «dwelling on the past».

### examples

- The village had about 50 dwellings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x1)
- Stone Age people built round dwellings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x2)
- The tree-dwelling monkey ate fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x3)
- Stop dwelling on your mistake and try again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x4)
- Each dwelling has its own garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x5)
- Cliff dwellings were built into the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x6)
- (formal) The fire damaged three dwellings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x7)
- She rejoices greatly in her beautiful dwelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/#x8)

### note

Formal; everyday: «house», «home». Verb «dwell» has past «dwelt» (UK) or «dwelled» (US). Noun «dweller» (city dwellers). In maths and statistics, dwellings are counted like houses.

### In the corpora

- [And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, unto the mountain of the east.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.276/)
- [It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.49/)
- [And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.161/)
- [Ye shall do no manner of work; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.695/)
- ['Speak unto the congregation, saying: Get you up from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.633/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dwelling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dwelling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.