to inhabit
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3.5
- verb
- /ɪnˈhæbɪt/
:
habitar
- Off the rugged coast of the Pacific Northwest, pods of killer whales inhabit the frigid waters.
- people inhabit an area
- inhabit the world
- inhabit the region
The city he inhabited has changed.
- The city he inhabited has changed.
- My soul is in the ether before I inhabit my next body.
- People who are willing to work hard to perfect this imperfect world that we inhabit.
- What we can be depends fundamentally on the spaces we create, renew, and inhabit.
- It means the entire world that we inhabit, our environment, our our universe, if you will.
- If the system decides that it's going to build cities in the expectation that that there will be a population to inhabit them, it can do that.
- You know, sometimes we talk about task distributions and that's something that's very obviously true of the world that humans inhabit.
- But on a more practical level, we were talking about, you know, potentially inhabiting planets that aren't our own.
- But then the other component is why do we choose to live in ways that don't rise to the occasion of the potential of the spaces that we inhabit?
Examples
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The rivers are free flowing and the signs of the Fremont people who once inhabited these desert lands are still there and the Ute people still inhabit those lands.
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Our most basic, common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
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And perhaps it's only a matter of time... before the city is too dangerous to inhabit.
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The problem, in part, is that the survivors on both sides in this war would still have to inhabit the same land and the same country.
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And the manatees too are endangered species that inhabit the Gulf.
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Being the oldest continuously inhabited structure in North America, it is a National Historic Landmark.
Academic text (1991) -
Cherokees arriving in Indian Territory in 1839 were not the first people to inhabit the area.
Academic text (2011) -
Cultural adaptation and persistence are evident in the contemporary landscape inhabited by the Mescalero Apache.
Academic text (1990) -
The Siberian tiger is the largest subspecies of the extant species and the only subspecies inhabiting snow-covered regions.
Academic text (2015) -
Many species of birds inhabit the rainforest, making it a vibrant ecosystem.
Synonyms
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1.0
To have a home in a particular place
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2.5
To live in a place, often for a long time
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3.7
Fill a place with people or animals
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3.0
To live in a particular place
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3.0
To live in a place or have a home there
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3.2
To live in a place such as a house or town
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9.9
To live in a place
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4.2
To start living in one place for a long time and make it your home
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inhabit comes from the old Latin verb habitare meaning 'to live' with the prefix in- meaning 'in'. So to inhabit a place is to 'live in' it, just like an animal lives in its habitat.