Habitable Definition

hăbĭ-tə-bəl
adjective
That can be inhabited; fit to be lived in.
Webster's New World
Suitable to live in or on; inhabitable.
Habitable land.
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Origin of Habitable

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin habitābilis from habitāre to dwell frequentative of habēre to have ghabh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Originally derived from the Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”).

    From Wiktionary

Habitable Sentence Examples

  • The farthest habitable spot to the south of Nejd is the Wadi Yabrin.

  • There was no prince greater or more formidable in the habitable globe.

  • The Ionian geographers looked on the circular disk of the habitable world as surrounded by a mighty stream named Oceanus, the name of the primeval god, father of gods and men, and thus the bond of union between heaven and earth.

  • The habitable parts of the world are a limited area, exclusion from any of which is a diminution of the available markets of the nations excluded.

  • The conception of an encompassing ocean bounding the habitable world is found in the creation myths of the most ancient civilizations.

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