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.