Meaning

3 senses
  1. (formal)A home or residence.

    The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile; too bad I was on vacation at the time.

    Domizil

    ме́сто жи́тельстваmésto žítelʹstva, местожи́тельствоmestožítelʹstvo

  2. A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

    пропискаpropiska

  3. The zodiac sign over which a planet (a term which in astrology includes the Sun and Moon) is considered to have especially strong influence; the planet is called the sign's ruling planet or sign ruler.

More definitions
  • (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time
  • housing that someone is living in

Examples

3 sentences
  1. He saw her to her home and then hastened to his own humble domicile.

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  2. The conflagration, abetted by fuel that residents stored in their domiciles, razed tin-roofed shacks.

    deDie Feuersbrunst, begünstigt durch Brennstoff, den Bewohner bei sich lagerten, machte zinngedeckte Hütten dem Erdboden gleich.

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  3. The company moved its corporate domicile to Hong Kong for tax purposes.

    ruКомпания перенесла свою юридическую регистрацию в Гонконг по налоговым соображениям.

    deDie Firma hat die Konzernzentrale aus steuerlichen Gründen nach Hongkong verlegt.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
home or residence:
a residence accepted as a final abode:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
home or residence:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English domicelle, domicylie, from Middle French domicile and direct

Inherited from Middle English domicelle, domicylie, from Middle French domicile and directly from Latin domicilium.

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Forms

plural: domiciles

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time:legal residence
  • housing that someone is living in:dwellinghomeabodehabitationdwelling house

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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