habitation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place

   We studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the ant colony.

2. 2
   noun

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

   And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places.

3. 3
   noun

   A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   housing that someone is living in

5. 5
   noun

   the native habitat or home of an animal or plant

6. 6
   noun

   A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.

7. 7
   noun

   A farm, ranch or plantation.

Etymology

From Middle English habitacioun, from Old French habitacion, abitacion (“act of dwelling”), from Latin habitātiōnem, accusative of Latin habitātiō.