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HABITATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
Example:
he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony
Synonyms:
habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("habitation" is a kind of...):
occupancy; tenancy (an act of being a tenant or occupant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "habitation"):
cohabitation (the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married))
bivouacking; camping; encampment; tenting (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Housing that someone is living in
Example:
they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Synonyms:
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("habitation" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
Meronyms (parts of "habitation"):
family room (a recreation room in a private house)
dressing room (a room in which you can change clothes)
dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)
kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)
dinette (a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining)
front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)
den (a room that is comfortable and secluded)
bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)
bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "habitation"):
yurt (a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing)
vacation home (a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation)
semi-detached house (a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side)
messuage ((law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household)
indian lodge; lodge (any of various Native American dwellings)
lake dwelling; pile dwelling (dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages)
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
homestead (dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land)
hermitage (the abode of a hermit)
fireside; hearth (home symbolized as a part of the fireplace)
fixer-upper (a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price))
condo; condominium (one of the dwelling units in a condominium)
cliff dwelling (a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The native habitat or home of an animal or plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("habitation" is a kind of...):
habitat; home ground (the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "habitation"):
aerie; aery; eyrie; eyry (any habitation at a high altitude)
den; lair (the habitation of wild animals)
Context examples:
Sir Thomas had been a good deal surprised to find candles burning in his room; and on casting his eye round it, to see other symptoms of recent habitation and a general air of confusion in the furniture.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We had to take some of our provisions, too, for we were in a perfect desolation, and, so far as we could see through the snowfall, there was not even the sign of habitation.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Oh, intolerable questions, when I could do nothing and go nowhere!—when a long way must yet be measured by my weary, trembling limbs before I could reach human habitation—when cold charity must be entreated before I could get a lodging: reluctant sympathy importuned, almost certain repulse incurred, before my tale could be listened to, or one of my wants relieved!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She was then taken into a parlour, so small that her first conviction was of its being only a passage-room to something better, and she stood for a moment expecting to be invited on; but when she saw there was no other door, and that there were signs of habitation before her, she called back her thoughts, reproved herself, and grieved lest they should have been suspected.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Fit habitation for gods, which, so short a time before, was bleak, damp, and unwholesome.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You propose, replied I, to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
