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Abode vs Realm - What's the difference?

abode | realm |

As nouns the difference between abode and realm

is that abode is act of waiting; delay while realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

As a verb abode

is past tense of abide.

abode

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
    • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
  • (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • * 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt 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
  • * (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
    • He waxeth at your abode here.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=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;
  • (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
    • of no fixed abode .
  • * (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
    • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abide)

    • Etymology 2

    * From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  • * High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -

    • Verb

    (abod)
  • (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be ominous.
    • Derived terms
    * abodement * aboding

    See also

    * dwelling

    References

    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies

    realm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
  • * 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
    • Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
  • * 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,
    • At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
  • The domain of a certain abstraction.
  • * 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
    • One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
  • (formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
  • * 1874 , ,
    • And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
  • * 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
    • Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,

    Synonyms

    * (A territory or state) country, land, kingdom * (A sphere of activity or influence) field, province

    Derived terms

    * abstract realm * Commonwealth realm * custom of the realm * Eastern Realm * experience realm * floristic realm * Ice Realm * in the realm of shades * Northern Realm * realm of banking * realm of fantasy * realm of the dead * realm of possibility * Snow Realm * Southern Realm * Western Realm

    Anagrams

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