habitation
/ˌhæb.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
Uncountable
noun
A farm, ranch or plantation.
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "The 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 disappeared."
- "Now, however, the windows in the houses began one by one to be lit up, giving a greater sense of habitation and humanity."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English habitacioun, from Old French habitacion, abitacion (“act of dwelling”), from Latin habitātiōnem, accusative of Latin habitātiō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: habitacioun, habitacion, habitātiōnem, habitātiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌhæb.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌhæb.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/