DHTBa house, apartment etc where people live 住宅,寓所,住处
Examples from the Corpus
dwelling• By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.• It is not surprising, therefore, that by the 1970s, more of the newly built dwellings were privately built.• Most of them are single-family dwellings, which is like calling the Taj Mahal nicedigs.• In the morning sunlightDent was no longer a fantasy but a solid and compactcluster of dwellings of a pastage.• Building models found in various places make explicit the connection between the Goddess and temples or dwellings.• The Housing Act 1988 is likely to reduce the stock of public-sector dwellings substantially.• Various small dwellingspressed against its sides like the farrow of a sow.
From Longman Business Dictionary
dwellingdwell·ing /ˈdwelɪŋ/ noun [countableC]
LAW a place where someone lives
New housing is expected to rise 15% this year to 180,000 dwellings.
(formal) ADJECTIVE | VERB + DWELLING | DWELLING + NOUNADJECTIVE➤makeshift, temporary臨時居所▸➤permanent永久住處➤humble, modest簡陋的/樸實無華的住所▸➤private私人住宅▸➤family, single家庭/獨棟住宅▸➤human人的住處◇The building looked more like a doll's house than a human dwelling.這幢大樓看起來更像洋娃娃的房子而不是住人的地方。➤cliff懸崖洞舍◇the ancient Native American cliff dwellings古代印第安人的懸崖洞舍VERB + DWELLING➤build修建住宅▸➤convert sth into把⋯改造成住宅◇an application to convert the old barn into a dwelling把舊糧倉改造成住宅的申請➤occupy佔用住處DWELLING + NOUN➤house, law法律) , place (old-fashioned) , unit (technical術語, especially NAmE) 住宅;住處;住宅單元