► home the house, apartment, or place where you live: The park isn’t far from our home. Birds had made their home under the roof.
► house the house or apartment where someone lives: Let’s go over to Dave’s house.
► place informal the house, apartment, or room where someone lives: Do you want to come back to my place for coffee?
► residence formal the place where you live. Used especially in official or legal language: It is illegal to run that type of business from a private residence.
► dwelling formal a house, apartment, etc. where people live. Used especially in scientific or legal language: We visited the cliff dwellings in Colorado, where the Anasazi Indians used to live.
► abode formal the place where you live. Used especially in literature: In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the abode of fallen warriors.