habitation
Collocations
4ADJ.
artificial
VERB + HABITATION
marks, served, shelters, sign
HABITATION + NOUN
gravity, neverthelesse
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
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.
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 […]
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.
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.
noun
A farm, ranch or plantation.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (sai
- inhabitancy
- inhabitation
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6And 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 o
WiktionaryWitness 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 w
WiktionaryThe 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
WiktionaryCertain industries advocated creating megastructures in space for habitation with artificial gravity.
Tatoeba · #1592699Autonomous machines will someday be deployed to the Moon, Mars or beyond to construct shelters for human habitation.
Tatoeba · #6551457In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.
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