Habitative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Habitative is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.
Meaning
(linguistics) Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.
More Meanings
- Pertaining to habitation.
Example Sentences
Taking this fact into account increases the density of known habitative names at Shapwick to 1 about every 185 acres.
The fiend himself, when started on his ill-intentioned cruise into chaos, could scarcely display a wider range of locomotive and habitative powers.
In this chapter we shall examine the countryside more in habitative and economic terms: what were the settlement patterns, social structures and economic formations of the countryside?
It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include habitational, habitudinal, inhabitive, peridomestic, residential, in-home.
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