Meaning of habitation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. room (separate part of a building)
2. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
   uncountable
3. A farm, ranch or plantation.
   Louisiana
4. bedroom (room with a bed for sleeping)
5. A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
   countable
6. habitation (the act of inhabiting)
7. A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.
   countable, uncountable
8. habitat (place where an organism occurs)

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Examples

“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.”

“Witness this new-made world, another Heaven From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view⟳ On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with stars Numerous, and every star perhaps a world Of destined habitation […]”

“The few miserable hovels that shewed some marks of human habitation, were now of still rarer occurrence; and, at length, as we began to ascend a huge and uninterrupted swell of moorland, they totally disappeared.”

“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⟳.”

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

“Mrs Deborah, having disposed of the child according to the will of her master, now prepared to visit⟳ those habitations which were supposed to conceal its mother.”

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

“And this is Shanty Town, my friend. ¶ Even here the children laugh⟳ in the narrow lanes that run⟳ between these tragic habitations.”

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