HABITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habitation mean? 

• HABITATION (noun)
  The noun HABITATION has 3 senses:

1. the native habitat or home of an animal or plant

2. housing that someone is living in

3. the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)

  Familiarity information: HABITATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABITATION (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Housing that someone is living in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home

Context example:

they raise money to provide homes for the homeless

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"):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

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)

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 act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation

Context example:

he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony

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"):

bivouacking; camping; encampment; tenting (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)

cohabitation (the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married))

 Context examples 

As soon as morning dawned I crept from my kennel, that I might view the adjacent cottage and discover if I could remain in the habitation I had found.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The site, known as Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site (RHS), was found in 2001 and features more than 2,500 artefacts of animal bones and ivory along with stone tools and evidence of human habitation.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I followed it, expecting soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretched on and on, it wound far and farther: no sign of habitation or grounds was visible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To prevent its being expected, she had fixed on the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield parish, the White House being only just large enough to receive herself and her servants, and allow a spare room for a friend, of which she made a very particular point.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One set might recommend their all removing to Donwell, and leaving Hartfield for the John Knightleys; and another might predict disagreements among their servants; but yet, upon the whole, there was no serious objection raised, except in one habitation, the Vicarage.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His inventory includes, not only the chattels and effects of every description belonging to the undersigned, as yearly tenant of this habitation, but also those appertaining to Mr. Thomas Traddles, lodger, a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a dark and evil-appearing thing, that hut, not fit for aught better than swine in a civilized land; but for us, who had known the misery of the open boat, it was a snug little habitation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any part of the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)