INHABITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inhabited mean? 

• INHABITED (adjective)
  The adjective INHABITED has 1 sense:

1. having inhabitants; lived in

  Familiarity information: INHABITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHABITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having inhabitants; lived in

Context example:

the inhabited regions of the earth

Similar:

colonised; colonized; settled (inhabited by colonists)

haunted (inhabited by or as if by apparitions)

occupied; tenanted (resided in; having tenants)

owner-occupied (lived in by the owner)

peopled (furnished with people)

populated (furnished with inhabitants)

populous; thickly settled (densely populated)

rock-inhabiting (of ferns and lichens that grow on rocks)

underpopulated (having a lower population density than normal or desirable)

Antonym:

uninhabited (not having inhabitants; not lived in)

 Context examples 

How often did I wish, added he, when I was at Allenham this time twelvemonth, that Barton cottage were inhabited!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Nor would I have stopped there had my dogs been less tired or had the rest of the village been inhabited.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry was alone in it; and his immediate hope of her having been undisturbed by the tempest, with an arch reference to the character of the building they inhabited, was rather distressing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have just opened the window, to let in a little air and sunshine; for everything gets so damp in apartments that are seldom inhabited; the drawing-room yonder feels like a vault.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Remains of food and other materials left in caves inhabited by pack rats which are preserved and serve as a "time capsule" of the vegetation of the time and, by extension, the climate.

(Pack rat middens, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

It had been their school-room; so called till the Miss Bertrams would not allow it to be called so any longer, and inhabited as such to a later period.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years, when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The fact is that I could not believe it possible that the most remarkable horse in England could long remain concealed, especially in so sparsely inhabited a place as the north of Dartmoor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An enlargement or swelling on the roots of legumes and certain other plants inhabited by symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

(Nodule, Food and Drug Administration)