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Habitation definition

hăbĭ-tāshən
habitations
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A place in which to live; dwelling; home.
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A colony or settlement.
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A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
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The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
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A residence.
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A natural environment or locality.
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The act of inhabiting; occupancy.
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The act of inhabiting or the state of being inhabited.
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Noun

Singular:
habitation
Plural:
habitations

Origin of habitation

  • Middle English habitacioun from Latin habitātiō habitātiōn- from habitātus past participle of habitāre to dwell habitable

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

  • From Old French habitacion, abitacion (“act of dwelling”)

    From Wiktionary

Habitation Sentence Examples

  • The same is true of habitation taxes.

  • Little houses are frequently erected over the grave as a habitation for the spirit.

  • The years of habitation gave the place a thousand smells, none of them pleas­ant.

  • For Bjarmaland, though it gained a local habitation, is also in Norse tradition a wholly mythical and mythological place, more or less identical with the underworld (Niflhel, mist-hell).

  • In the south of the district, along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, lie the forest tracts of the Sundarbans, the habitation of tigers, leopards and other wild beasts.

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