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habitation

hab·i·ta·tion [ ˌha-bə-ˈtā-shən]

habitation

noun

[ˌha-bə-ˈtā-shən]

Definition of habitation

1 : the act of inhabiting : occupancy
//not fit for human habitation

2 : a dwelling place

3 : settlement, colony

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Recent Examples on the Web

//Guo was convicted in 1991 for burglary of a habitation after breaking into the apartment of a Southern Methodist University student in the Dallas area.
— Fox News, "Registered sex offender guilty of 1988 Texas attack, death of doctor three decades later," 25 Sep. 2019
//Brady Joseph Ray, 39, was being held in Harris County Jail on bond set at nearly $2.3 million for charges including aggravated assault against a police officer and burglary of habitation with intent to commit assault, records show.
— Houston Chronicle, "Bond of $2.3 million in shooting of sheriff's deputy," 16 June 2019
//The ideal places for dinosaur hunting lack any vegetation cover and are far from human habitation.
— Hans-dieter Sues, Smithsonian, "How to Discover Dinosaurs," 3 Sep. 2019
//There was actually more debris from human habitation directly after the eruption than before it.
— Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, "These early humans survived a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago," 20 Mar. 2018
//For the sixth straight year, unsheltered homelessness — people living on the streets, in desert washes, vehicles or another place not meant for habitation — increased.
— Catherine Reagor, azcentral, "Squeezed Out: Arizona spending $15M to build affordable housing and shelters for homeless," 12 Sep. 2019
//The State Department memo added: The UNHCR team speculated that the purpose of the killing was a campaign of ethnic cleansing intended to clear certain areas in the south of Rwanda for Tutsi habitation.
— Maggie Calt, Harper's magazine, "Brutal from the Beginning," 22 July 2019
//Police said Lewis has been charged with two counts of felonious assault and two counts of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation.
— Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, "Police: Man shot at victims, hit sheriff's office building," 16 July 2019
//People in habitation situations have to be more interpersonally sensitive.
— National Geographic, "Here’s why women may be the best suited for spaceflight," 17 June 2019

First Known Use of habitation

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

History and Etymology for habitation

Middle English habitacioun, from Anglo-French habitaciun, from Latin habitation-, habitatio, from habitare to inhabit, frequentative of habēre

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