释义 |
habitation /habɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The fact of living in a particular place: signs of human habitation...- But due to fragmentation and increased human habitation, the big cat's habitat has shrunk further.
- We could only wonder, for there is a lot of landscape out there and not too many signs of human habitation.
- Four hours had passed, and barren mountain after barren mountain still lay ahead, the only sign of human habitation being a couple of tiny isolated dwellings.
Synonyms occupancy, occupation, residence, residency, living in, housing, billeting, quartering, tenure formal dwelling rare inhabitancy, habitancy, inhabitance, domiciliation 1.1 [count noun] formal A house or home: he built his habitation close to the river...- A decade or so before there used to be fewer fishermen houses but now the habitations have become much more sprawling.
- Fashioned after Indian lodges, the habitations were made out of thick, tanned skins stretched over a pole structure ten feet or so in diameter.
- It is divided into departments that are subdivided into arrondissements, communes, commune sectionals, and habitations.
Synonyms house, home, seat, lodging, lodging place, a roof over one's head, billet, quarters, living quarters, rooms, accommodation, housing informal pad, digs, diggings formal residence, place of residence, dwelling, dwelling place, abode, domicile Derivatives habitative adjective ...- Compound names are composed of an adjectival element and a habitative or topographic element.
- However, examples of habitative elements occurring in the first position are not unknown.
- Although a rarity in the west of the country, it is the commonest habitative element of the earliest recorded English place-names.
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin habitatio(n-), from habitare 'inhabit'. |