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Located about 15 minutes outside of the historic Western film-worthy downtown core and perched high in the Mountain Village neighborhood, the one-of-a-kind abode was designed by Tom Conyers Architects and built in 2015 by Gerber Construction, with interior design by Thomas Hamel and Associates.—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025 Per investigators, he is suspected of using fire escape stairs in the rear of Khan's residential building to enter the actor's abode.—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 The rapper bought the neighboring plots from former Fox Corp. legal officer Viet Dinh in an off-market deal, so not a lot is publicly known about the abode.—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025 After leaving the White House in 1981, former President Jimmy Carter spent his next 43 years living in a much more modest abode.—Tom Huddleston Jr.,sarah Berger, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for abode
Word History
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"
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