dwelling

• IPA^(key): /ˈdwɛ.lɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

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From Middle English dwelling, duelling (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

dwelling (plural dwellings)

1. A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; home

   The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.

   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, Enoch Arden:

     Philip's dwelling fronted on the street.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:

     He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

• See also Thesaurus:abode

• dwellinghouse
• dwelling place
• lake dwelling: prehistoric structure

• dwelling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

From dwell +‎ -ing.

dwelling

1. present participle of dwell

   I was dwelling in the cave.