abode

• aboad, abood (obsolete)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbəʊd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈboʊd/, [ʔəˈboʊːd̥̚]

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• Rhymes: -əʊd

From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.

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. (dated or law) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [Attested from (1350 to 1470) to the mid 18^th century.][1]
   • 1661, John Fell Summary, 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 […]

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume 2, London: Millar, →OCLC, page 289:

     You behold, Sir, how he waxeth Wroth at your Abode here.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode

   of no fixed abode

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: s.n., →OCLC, page 236:

     Come let me lead you to our poor Abode.

   • 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Thuvia”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 61:

     “I am of another world. I am John Carter, Prince of the House of Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium. Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode.”

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[6]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He unrolled the newspaper baton idly and read idly:
     What is home without
     Plumtree's Potted Meat?
     Incomplete.
     With it an abode of bliss.

abode

1. simple past 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....

From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- +‎ bode (“presage, portend, announce”).

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling. [Attested from the late 16^th century to the late 17^th century.][1]
   • 1865, George Chapman, edited by Richard Hooper, The Iliads of Homer, London: J.R. Smith, →OCLC, page 6:

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

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]
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, act 5, scene 6:

     The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time

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

• dwelling

• Baode, EABOD, adobe, boaed