different between abode vs employment

English

Alternative forms

• abood (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??bo?d/, [???bo??d??]
• Rhymes: -??d

Etymology 1

From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English ?b?d, first person past singular indicative of ?b?dan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.

Noun

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay. [Attested from (1150 to 1350) to the early 17^th century.]
2. (dated or law) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [Attested from (1350 to 1470) to the mid 18^th century.]
3. (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode

Translations

Verb

abode

2. simple past tense and past participle of abide

Etymology 2

From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ?b?odan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + b?odan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- +? bode (“presage, portend, announce”).

Noun

abode (plural abodes)

1. (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling. [Attested from the late 16^th century to the late 17^th century.]

Translations

Verb

abode (third-person singular simple present abodes, present participle aboding, simple past and past participle aboded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage. [Attested from the late 16^th century to the mid 17^th century.]
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous. [Attested from the mid 17^th century to the late 17^th century.]

Derived terms

See also

• dwelling

References

Anagrams

• EABOD, adobe, boaed

English

Etymology

From employ (itself from Middle French employer, from Middle French empleier, from Latin implic? (“enfold, involve, be connected with”), itself from in- + plic? (“fold”)) +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pl??m?nt/, /?m?pl??m?nt/

Noun

employment (countable and uncountable, plural employments)

1. The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
2. The act of employing
3. A use, purpose

   The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure

4. The state of being employed
   • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:

     At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

5. An activity to which one devotes time
6. (economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Synonyms

• employ
• hire

Antonyms

• unemployment
• underemployment

Related terms

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