Reverse Dictionary: DWELL

ADJECTIVES
► ACCOLENT dwelling near; neighbouring → 1731 obs.
► DOMESTICANT dwelling, residing; living together → 1642 obs.
► MANSIONARY dwelling in a place, permanently abiding, resident → 1447 obs.

NOUNS
► BADGER BOX a roughly-constructed dwelling; a small dwelling or hut  → L19 Aust. sl.
► BEING a dwelling-place, a home, a lodging → 1839 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BIDE ► BYDE a dwelling, a dwelling-place, habitation → a1300 obs.
► BIDING a dwelling, an abode, habitation → a1600 obs.
► BIDING-PLACE a dwelling, a place of abode → 1520
► BIGGIN a dwelling, a house → 1952 Amer. dial.
► BOWER a rustic dwelling; a cottage → 1981 Aust. colloq.. arch. (Bk.)
► CABINET a dwelling, lodging; a little cabin, hut, soldier’s tent; a rustic cottage → 1572 obs.
► CABOOSE a poor dwelling, a hut, a cabin → E19 chiefly N. Amer.
► CADGING HOUSE a beggar’s dwelling place → 19C sl.
► CAMP a summer dwelling, whether modest or elaborate → 1880 Amer. dial.
► CASTLE a collection of dwellings; a village → c1000 obs.
► CRIB a dwelling; a home → Bk2006 US sl.
► DOGHOLE a squalid dwelling place → c1450
► DUNGEON a rough or primitive dwelling or place of shelter → 1460 obs.
► EARN a dwelling, a place, a hut → a1000 obs. rare
► GOPHER HOLE a primitive dwelling built wholly or partly underground → 1880 Amer. dial.
► GUNYAH a small, poorly constructed dwelling → Bk1999 Aust. sl.
► HABITACLE a dwelling-place, habitation → a1300 obs.
► HABITACULE a dwelling place, habitation, residence → c1374 obs.
► HABITANCE a dwelling-place, habitation → 1590 obs.
► HALF DUGOUT a dwelling built partially under the ground → 1889 Amer. dial.
► HALLAN a dwelling, a house, a cottage → 1827 Sc.
► HOIL a mean, wretched dwelling → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► HUMPY a makeshift dwelling → 1846 Aust. sl.
► HUTCH a dwelling, a domicile, a room, apartment, or house → 1966 US sl.
► INN a dwelling; generally in plural → 1809 Sc.
► KENNEL a small or mean dwelling or hut  1837
► MANANTIE a dwelling → c1330 obs.
► MANSION a dwelling or staying in a place → a1340 obs.
 – a separate dwelling-place, lodging, or apartment in a large house or enclosure; chiefly plural → c1400 obs.
 – a structure or edifice serving as a dwelling or lodging place; a house, a tent, etc. → a1340 obs.
► MANSION-HOUSE a dwelling-house, a house in which a person resides → 1533 obs.
► MANSION-PLACE a dwelling-place, a place of abode; the chief seat of a landed proprietor → 1473 obs.
► MANSION-SEAT a dwelling-place, a place of abode → 1618 obs.
► MAN-STY a dwelling-house or hut unfit for human habitation → 1799
► MASURES squalid and tumble-down dwellings → 1623 obs.
► NECKLE a dwelling, a house → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► PALYIR a dwelling, an abode, a home → 1879 Sc.
► SARDINE BOX ► SARDINE TIN an extremely small dwelling → L19 Aust. sl.
► SHEBANG a house, a home, a dwelling place, a shop → 1863 US sl.
► SHITBOX a dirty or dilapidated dwelling → 1966 sl.
► SHITHEAP a dilapidated or untidy dwelling → 1961 sl., orig. US
► SMOKE-HOUSE a dwelling-house → a1687 obs.
► SUBTERRANEAN an underground dwelling → 1797
► SUBTERRENE an underground dwelling → 1854
► TABERNACLE a dwelling, a place of abode → 1382
– a temporary dwelling; generally movable, constructed of branches, boards, or canvas; a hut, tent, booth → 1382
► THREE-DECKER a three-story dwelling with one apartment occupying each floor → 1899 Amer. dial.
► THURSE-HOLE ► THURSE-HOUSE a hollow vault in a rock or hill which served for a dwelling → Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
► TRIPLE-DECKER a three-story dwelling with one apartment occupying each floor → 1999 Amer. dial.
► WANE a dwelling-place, a residence, a house → a1225 obs.
► WICKEYUP ► WICKIE-UP ► WICKIUP ► WICKY-UP any meagre dwelling → 1876 Amer. dial.
► YARD a dwelling, a home, a house → 1920s W. Indies & Black British sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABIDER a dweller; a resident; a person who stays in a place → 1440
► ACCOLENT a person who dwells on or near the border of a country → Bk1795
► DWELLERESS a female dweller → 1382 obs.
► DWELSTER a female dweller → 1382 obs.
► HABITANT a person who dwells or resides in a place; a resident; an inhabitant → 1490
► HABITATOR a dweller, a resident, an inhabiter  1646 obs.
► HOUSER a person who makes their home somewhere; a dweller, an inhabitant → 1871
► OUTSETTER a person who lives outside a place; an outdweller → 1674
► WONNER a dweller, an inhabitant; a dweller → 1825 Sc.

VERBS
► ADHABITATE to dwell nigh → 1626 obs.
► BELEAVE to dwell with a person; to abide, to continue → c1175 obs.
► BIDE to dwell, to reside, to sojourn → c1280 arch.
► EAT PORRIDGE to dwell, to live, to reside → 1867 Eng. dial.
► HABIT to dwell, to abide, to reside, to sojourn → a1366 obs.
 – to dwell in, to inhabit → 1598 arch.
► HABITATE to dwell → 1866
► HARBOUR to dwell in a place; to haunt, to frequent → 1886 Eng. dial.
► INQUILINATE to dwell in a strange place → 1623 obs.
► KENNEL to dwell, to lodge or lurk; to inhabit → 1599
► LAIR to dwell, to lie, to rest; to sink to rest → 1815 Sc.
► LEND to dwell, to abide; to tarry, to remain, to stay → a1300 obs.
► LENG to dwell, to abide; to linger, to tarry, to remain → a1300 obs.
► LOCATE to dwell, to take up one’s residence → Bk1905 Amer. dial.
► MANSION to dwell, to reside → a1638 obs.
► SHACK UP to dwell, to live or reside, usually temporarily → 1950s US sl.
► SIT to dwell, to abide, to remain in a place → c900
► STAY to dwell, to reside → 1973 US sl.
► YERDE to dwell → c1515 Sc.