ABODE


Meaning of ABODE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

fixed

I was of no fixed abode , but I'd finished my time so they still let me go.

Consider too the vulnerability of the homeless person with no fixed abode .

Therefore a rabbit has no fixed abode .

Stephen Leach, 35, of no fixed abode , said nothing during the brief hearing before Liverpool magistrates.

For life here is junkie, is hooker is single-parent, is no fixed abode .

Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool.

humble

To think that a man of so many millions should visit our humble abode .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be of/have no fixed abode/address

Both were said to be of no fixed abode, although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool.

I was of no fixed abode, but I'd finished my time so they still let me go.

sb's humble abode

Welcome to our humble abode.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And, it causes ice dams on a few unfortunate abodes.

It was an abode of perfect blessedness.

It was in some contrast to Jansher's abode in nearby Peshawar, but Mehboob and his family were happy.

The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act changed this, and only those born in Britain were henceforth automatically given the right of abode .

The poets did not care to linger in that gloom-hidden abode .

Therefore a rabbit has no fixed abode .

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