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dwelling
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[ noun ] (housing) housing that someone is living in
Synonyms Examples "he built a modest dwelling near the pond" "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" Used in print (Sports Age, 24:9...)Almost every official who reflects on_it thinks this movement of Americans to canvas dwellings opens one of the most promising of all outdoor markets . (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land_sites necessary for family subsistence . We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most_of the communication is between nearest neighbors only , as shown in Figure 2 . In any social_system in which communications have an importance comparable_with that of production and other human factors , a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader , while e and h would house the next most important citizens . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)It was established in a_couple_of buildings in the shopping district , with only a_few professors , but all eminent men , and a_few hundred eager students housed in nearby dwellings . |
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