【Habitation】 , 【dwelling】 ,  【abode】 ,  【residence】 ,  【domicile】 ,  【home】 ,  【house】  are comparable when they mean the place where one lives.

All may apply to an actual structure or part of a structure in which one lives, and all but the last also may apply to the place (as a farm, a village, or a nation) where such a structure is situated.

【Habitation】 suggests permanency of occupancy and may apply to a building or to an inhabited place.

【Dwelling】 typically refers to a building or shelter for a single family or individual, often as opposed to a building used in business.

【Abode】 may apply to a building, but more often it designates a place as a seat or center of occupancy. Distinctively,  【abode】 may stress transience.

【Residence】 in reference to a building may be somewhat formal and convey a suggestion of dignity and substance. But  【residence】 also may refer to an area or place (as a town or state) where one lives and in such use carries specific legal implications (as of actual occupancy or intention to remain).

【Domicile】 in reference to a building carries no special connotations. In wider reference to a place it may be quite neutral or it may have very definite legal implications (as of being the seat of one’s principal and permanent 【home】 and therefore the place where one has a settled connection for such important legal purposes as determination of civil status and jurisdiction to impose personal judgments and taxes) in which it is often specifically contrasted with  【residence】 .

【Home】 , like the foregoing terms, is used either of a structure or a place of 【residence】 or sometimes of origin, but of all these terms  【home】 distinctively conveys the notion of one’s 【dwelling】 as the seat and center of family life and the focus of domestic affections. Unlike the other terms  【house】  is not used of a place as distinct from a structure; basically it applies to a building used or intended for use as a 【dwelling】 place and, especially as compared with  【home】 , is a very general and neutral term; thus, a landlord’s  【house】  may become the  【home】 of a tenant.