dwelling place

collocation in English

meaningsofdwellingandplace

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dwelling
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdwel.ɪŋ/us
/ˈdwel.ɪŋ/
a house or place to ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofdwellingandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdwelling place

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It again sees its formerdwellingplacein the heaven of intelligible ideas.
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The farmyard surrounding the house cannot be left out of the picture here, as it would have been an indissoluble part of thedwellingplace(figure 4).
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For the first time the world of daily life, asdwellingplaceof man, was considered to be worthy of being represented, studied and admired in itself.
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He goes on to note that thedwellingplaceof the nuns should be set apart and made far from monks, though they are joined spiritually.
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Thedwellingplaceof a family is just as important as the food they buy and the clothing they wear.
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I think that the technical term isdwellingplace.
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If one lives at the end of such a bus route, one cannot get back to one'sdwellingplaceon the same day.
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He had better be careful what documents he has in his owndwellingplace.
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Their sense of self-worth is not based solely on theirdwellingplace.
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Only the other day a man came to me and asked me to help him to get adwellingplaceof one of the big housing trusts.
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Every house should be so built that each member of the family living in it can make it a home and not merely adwellingplace.
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In the center of the village is a public square with adwellingplacefor the village headman.
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Each of the 16 houses was thedwellingplaceof an individual deity.
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Permission was given to expand the friar'sdwellingplacein 1349.
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Moreover, market economy, which came with setting up of administration, forced people to move out of their traditionaldwellingplace.
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