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Abode vs Shelter - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between abode and shelter

is that abode is act of waiting; delay while shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

As verbs the difference between abode and shelter

is that abode is past tense of abide while shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

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

    shelter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
  • An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

    • Derived terms

    * bus shelter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
  • * Dryden
    • Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
  • * Southey
    • You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
  • To take cover.
    • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.