abode/əˈbəʊd/EtymologyFrom Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.abode means act of waiting; delay. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 66 out of 100.nounAct of waiting; delay.“Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode.”Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.“During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]”A residence, dwelling or habitation.“of no fixed abode”An omen; a foretelling.“High-thundering Juno's husband, stirs my spirit with true abodes.”verbTo bode; to foreshow; to presage.“The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time”To be ominous.