English

Alternative forms

• abood (obsolete)

Noun

abode ‎(plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay. [Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17^th century.]^[1]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode.

2. (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [Attested from (1350 to 1470) to the mid 18^th century.]^[1]
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   • (Can we date this quote?), Henry Fielding, (Please provide the title of the work):

     He waxeth at your abode here.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.

3. (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]

   of no fixed abode.‎

   • (Can we date this quote?), William Wordsworth, (Please provide the title of the work):

     Come, let me lead you to our poore abode.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:abode

Translations

Verb

abode

1. simple past tense and past participle of abide
   • 1898, Henry James, In the Cage:

     The fine, soundless pulse of this game was in the air for our young woman while they remained in the shop. While they remained? They remained all day; their presence continued and abode with her, was in everything she did till nightfall....

Etymology 2

• From an alteration with bode and Middle English abeden ‎(“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan ‎(“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan ‎(“to command, proclaim”)
• a- +‎ bode ‎(“presage, portend, announce”)

Noun

abode ‎(plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling. [Attested from the late 16^th century to the late 17^th century.]^[1]
   • (Can we date this quote?), George Chapman, (Please provide the title of the work):

     High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes.

Translations

Verb

abode ‎(third-person singular simple present abodes, present participle aboding, simple past and past participle aboded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage. [Attested from the late 16^th century to the mid 17^th century.]^[1]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous. [Attested from the mid 17^th century to the late 17^th century.]^[1]

Derived terms

See also

• dwelling

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown, Lesley, editor (1933) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, published 2003, page 6

Anagrams

• adobe