dwell
verb/dwel/
/dwel/
[intransitive] (formal or literary)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they dwell | /dwel/ /dwel/ |
| he / she / it dwells | /dwelz/ /dwelz/ |
| past simple dwelt | /dwelt/ /dwelt/ |
| past participle dwelt | /dwelt/ /dwelt/ |
| past simple dwelled | /dweld/ /dweld/ |
| past participle dwelled | /dweld/ /dweld/ |
| -ing form dwelling | /ˈdwelɪŋ/ /ˈdwelɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. to live somewhere
- He dwelt in a ruined cottage on the hillside.
- For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America.
- The gorillas dwell in the high rainforests of Rwanda.
Word OriginOld English dwellan ‘lead astray, hinder, delay’ (in Middle English ‘tarry, remain in a place’), of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwellen ‘stun, perplex’ and Old Norse dvelja ‘delay, tarry, stay’.Definitions on the go
Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
dwell