Habitation

Quick meaning: Habitation is a noun meaning (uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

Meaning

(uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
2. A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.
3. (Louisiana) A farm, ranch or plantation.

Example Sentences

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

How gay the Habitations that adorn This fertile Valley! Not a House but seems To give assurance of content within;

Now, however, the windows in the houses began one by one to be lit up, giving a greater sense of habitation and humanity.

And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

Word Forms

• habitations

Synonyms for habitation

Depending on context, synonyms include abode, domicile, dwelling, inhabitation, inhabitancy, dwelling house.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include domicile, inhabitancy, inhabitation, dwelling, dwelling house, abode.

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