Dwelling and Room

Dwelling

Dwelling noun - The place where one lives.

Usage example: the simple dwellings in which the Pilgrims spent the first winter at Plymouth

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Room and dwelling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Room" instead a noun "Dwelling".

Nearby Words: dwell, dweller, dwelled

Room noun - An extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing.

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Dwelling and room are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dwelling" instead a noun "Room".

Nearby Words: roomy, roomed, roomer, roominess, roomette

common	common dwelling	common room
current	current dwelling	current room
small	small dwelling	small room
large	large dwelling	large room
Other adjectives: huge, evil, private, underground, strange, last.

He never stops dwelling on his role in the Red Room as a Senior Agent and killer.

Source: Literature / Red Room
In Sunset Shimmer Has Crabs, said former villain has crabs...... the edible, water dwelling kind, infesting her room.

Source: Entertainingly Wrong
Man on Fire: The way that Mike escapes from the eponymous room is by setting his lucky Hawaiian shirt on fire, and he speculates that the entity dwelling in the room had no interest in absorbing a burned man.

Source: Literature / 1408

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