domiciles

Places people live

Domiciles is the plural of domicile, a formal or legal term for a place where someone lives.

In everyday speech, home or residence serves better, but domicile appears in legal contexts where permanent address matters: The form asks for your current domicile.

As a verb, to domicile means to establish residence: She was domiciled in Switzerland for tax purposes.

dwelling

house

Residential building

flat · condominium · townhouse · bungalow · cottage · villa · mansion · manor · estate · chateau

hearth

fireside

Area beside the hearth

household · family home · ancestral home · homeplace · dwelling place · roof over head · four walls · living space · personal space

shelter

refuge

Place of safety

protection · roof · cover · safety · hideaway · retreat · bunker · stronghold · fortress · harbor

Opposites
residential vs. commercial/institutional function

domicilesworkplaces

Sites of employment

offices · commercial buildings · factories · businesses · industrial sites

permanent residence vs. temporary lodging

domicileshotels

Commercial lodging establishments

motels · hostels · shelters · crash pads · boarding houses

settled dwelling vs. unsheltered/displaced state

domicileshomelessness

Lacking permanent residence

rough sleeping · vagrancy · displacement · houselessness · itinerancy

Phrases
Family

domicile, domiciled, domiciling

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