Dwelling vs Gunyah - What's the difference?
dwelling | gunyah |
A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword
(Australia) A traditional Aboriginal dwelling made of bark and sticks.
* 1861 , , The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition: An Account of the Crossing the Continent of Australia from Coopers Creek to Carpentaria ,
* 1938 , ,
* 1994 , Rita Huggins, Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita ,
As nouns the difference between dwelling and gunyah
is that dwelling is a habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile while gunyah is (australia) a traditional aboriginal dwelling made of bark and sticks.As a verb dwelling
is (dwell).dwelling
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dwelling, . More at dwell.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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.}}
- The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
- Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. -
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dwellinghouse * dwelling place * lake dwelling: prehistoric structureReferences
*Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- I was dwelling in the cave.
gunyah
English
Alternative forms
* gunyaNoun
(en noun)page 4,
- The following day we reached the main creek ; and knowing where there was a fine water-hole and native gunyahs , we went there, intending to save what was left of our flour and dried meat, for the purpose of making another attempt to reach Mount Hopeless.
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- Still standing as he was, some seconds later he chuckled again to see her pass like a flash from the jungle to the gunyah'. But in spite of chuckling he was afraid to advance; indeed he even avoided staring at the ' gunyah ; and though the desire to play the faun to this nymph was in his heart, thought of flight was uppermost in his mind.
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- We lived in humpies, or gunyahs', that the men built from tree branches, bark and leaves. Gum resin held them together. We would sleep inside the ' gunyahs , us children arguing for the warm place closest to Mama, a place usually kept for the youngest children.
