Word Direct Answers

What does "abode" mean?

Abode: Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.
  2. 3.Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.
  3. 4.An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.
  4. 5.To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] Shak.
  5. 6.To be ominous. [Obs.] Dryden.

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