3 meanings
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1 —as in:
Don't dwell on it.
Definition
to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period- Don't dwell on the past.
dwell = think or talk about something longer than seems appropriate
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Her students were ready to move on, but she dwelled on about Chapter 7.
- I will not dwell on the experience because it causes us all terrible discomfort.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- I didn't have time to dwell on my worries.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- Lately, a few vague thoughts of marriage to Chase had formed in her mind, but she had not dared dwell on them.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- I've got to stop dwelling on this.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Fain would I dwell on form.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- Jem was not one to dwell on past defeats: it seemed the only message he got from Atticus was insight into the art of cross examination.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
dwelled = focused for a long time
dwell = talk longer
dwell = talk excessively (about something)
dwell = think excessively about
dwell = think excessively about
dwell = focus (let attention stay)
dwelling = letting attention stay on something
dwell = focus (let attention stay)
dwell = think excessively about
2 —as in:
It dwells in the forest.
Definition
make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)- The creature dwells in the forest.
dwells = lives in
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- There family has dwelled in that valley for ten generations.
- There in captivity he lets them dwellJohn Milton -- Paradise Lost
- I do remember an apothecary—
And hereabouts he dwells,William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - Never would she have taken a barefoot marsh dweller as a daughter-in-law.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- That the spirit of the Lord cannot dwell in an unclean vessel, and that no vessel is clean when it forsakes God and relies on man.Tara Westover -- Educated
- There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - ...the woman has been a dweller here in Boston.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it?George Orwell -- Animal Farm
dwelled = lived
dwell = live there
dwells = lives
dweller = one who lives in a place
dwell = live
dwell = live
dwell = live (make their home)
dweller = one who lives in a place
dwell = live
3 —as in:
a modest dwelling
Definition
a house or shelter in which someone lives- There is a second dwelling unit on the property.
dwelling = home
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We searched the entire valley and did not find her dwelling.
- Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- He turned his outsized pickup onto the track and cruised quietly toward the dwelling, easing to a stop fifty feet from the door.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Crumbling stone dwellings of the long-vanished Kayenta Anasazi, the creators of this rock art, nestle in protective nooks.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- ...they reached the dwelling of Governor Bellingham.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras)Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- It was only on very rare occasions that one saw inside the dwelling-places of the Inner Party, or even penetrated into the quarter of the town where they lived.George Orwell -- 1984
- Unlike Nadia, he felt in part guilty that they and their fellow residents were occupying a home that was not their own, and guilty also at the visible deterioration brought on by their presence, the presence of over fifty inhabitants in a single dwelling.Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- in the war of 1812, her dwelling was set on fire by English soldiers ... when she was away,Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
dwelling = home
dwelling = home
dwelling = home
dwellings = homes
dwelling = home
dwelling = home
dwelling = living
dwelling = home
dwelling = house