dwelling
n. countablen. a house, apartment, or other place where someone lives. It is a formal word for a home.
n. a building or place of residence; a shelter in which people live. Often used in legal, architectural, or formal contexts to describe any type of habitation.
The old dwelling stood at the edge of the forest.
The city council is planning to build several new multi-family dwellings to address the housing shortage.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a prehistoric dwelling, providing valuable insight into how early humans constructed permanent shelters from local stone and timber.
From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.
From dwell + -ing.
Commonly used in formal writing, legal documents, and census data rather than in casual conversation.