1. think moodily or anxiously about something
2. come back to; "Don''t dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"
3. make one''s home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
4. originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

Similar Words: brood, harp, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate, consist, lie, belong, lie in

See Also: dwell on, linger over, live in, sleep in, live out, sleep out

Hyponyms: neighbor, neighbour, rusticate, occupy, reside, lodge in, overpopulate, cohabit, shack up, lodge, camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent, board, room, inhere, pertain, appertain

Derivational Morphology: population, multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, citizenry, inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation, inhabitant, dweller, denizen, indweller, liver, resident, occupant, occupier, residency, residence, abidance, hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty, dwelling, home, domicile, abode, dwelling house, lie