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Best Hotels & Resorts The Promissory Hotel This boutique property is housed in a 1912 bank building with striking neoclassical design and 27 rooms, including loft-style abodes and two-bedroom suites.—Julekha Dash, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026 Inside the sparse, upscale abode, cardboard moving boxes are still scattered across the entryway, and his shelves lack ingredients.—Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive.—ABC News, 3 June 2026 At the center of the abode is a circular, half-moon living room, anchored by a sculptural fireplace and with a small dining area off to the side.—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for abode
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Etymology
Middle English abade, abode, from bade, bode "stay, delay" (going back to Old English bād "expectation, period of waiting," probably going back to Germanic *baiđ-, noun derivative from the base of *bīđ- "wait, bide") crossed with abiden "to abide"