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verb (used with object)

to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.

to exist or be situated within; dwell in: Weird notions inhabit his mind.

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verb (used without object)

Archaic. to live or dwell, as in a place.

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Origin:
1325–75; < Latin inhabitāre, equivalent to in- in-² + habitāre to dwell (see habit²); replacing Middle English enhabiten < Middle French enhabiter < Latin as above

Related forms

in·hab·it·a·ble, adjective

in·hab·it·a·bil·i·ty, noun

in·hab·i·ta·tion, noun

non·in·hab·it·a·bil·i·ty, noun

non·in·hab·it·a·ble, adjective

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pre·in·hab·it, verb (used with object)

pre·in·hab·i·ta·tion, noun

re·in·hab·it, verb (used with object)

un·in·hab·it·a·bil·i·ty, noun

un·in·hab·it·a·ble, adjective

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Can be confused: habitable, inhabitable, uninhabitable.

Synonyms
1, 2. reside, occupy, tenant, populate.

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Example Sentences

Brown on the changing world of small business and the colorful characters who inhabit it.

Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world.

Some inhabit the nether world of loan sharks and bail bondsmen.

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Brown on the changing world of small business and the colorful characters who inhabit it.

Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world.

Some inhabit the nether world of loan sharks and bail bondsmen.

Gars inhabit lakes, bayous, and bays and are able to tolerate brackish and even salt water.

But this study is the first to show that the algae actually inhabit the embryo itself.

The carp are a danger to humans that wish to boat on the waters the carp inhabit.

And you are knocked completely out of the book and back into the mundane world you usually inhabit.

People think of the landscapes they inhabit as terra firma, solid ground.

But law schools do inhabit a place in the university, even if a conflicted one.

Barring tragedies, children in these years inhabit a sheltered, more benign world-and fortunate parents enjoy visiting rights.

The trait is unique in these strange and fascinating fish that inhabit tropical and temperate coastal waters worldwide.

One would expect relatives to share the same territory or to inhabit territories close together.

Games are excellent vehicles for helping people inhabit complex, difficult situations.

The people of the frontier came to inhabit a nebulous no-man's land where the state exercised little control over them.

Soldiers, more than others, inhabit a world of public ritual and demeanor.

Sadly, though, the councillors who inhabit them now hardly need to turn to the ancients.

They exert a profound influence on the ecosystems they inhabit.

In the wild, rather than hives, they inhabit boreholes drilled by beetles into the trunks and branches of dead trees.

It's a way for players to make their voices heard and influence the virtual world they have paid to inhabit.

They seem to inhabit some alchemical middle state between plastic and metal.

Similarly, some professors desperately hold beliefs that don't quite match the world they inhabit.

For as other technology firms face stagnant or shrinking markets, the video-games industry seems to inhabit a parallel universe.

Pashtuns inhabit the desert-dominated southern plateaus.

They say that being indigenous doesn't grant a species special rights to inhabit an ecosystem.

The world has been a better place for having had such a truly good soul inhabit it.

They know that the world they inhabit can come tumbling down at any time.

It's interesting to imagine the state of mind artists inhabit while they work.

The birds typically choose large, older trees for nesting and usually inhabit a tree hole.

Dinoflagellate algae inhabit coral, give it color and provide it with food.

Those that inhabit its space abide by the warrior's code.

Those of us who inhabit the sciences live in the universe where man must learn the given rules.

Of course if drunk or strung out, it would be an attractive place to inhabit.

Have students identify the different creatures that inhabit the ecosystems being monitored by these two programs.

Conservationists have historically been at odds with the people who inhabit wildernesses.

Stunning schools of rainbow-hued fish inhabit the site.

But they inhabit a wildly varied landscape of surreal beauty.

Few large mammals permanently inhabit these forests, though many will frequent it seasonally.

As far as our galaxy is concerned, those stars might as well inhabit a separate universe.

Few online booking platforms offer customers with particular preferences the ability to choose which carriage they inhabit.

He was studying so-called tree crickets that inhabit weedy fields.

Solution: hijack an ant's body to do the work for you-and then inhabit it.

Visitors may also catch a glimpse of some of the hundreds of narwhals and seals that inhabit the park.

Many environmental risk studies have turned their sights on the everyday world people inhabit.

And mussels and clams both inhabit coasts-their remains would be good delineators of shorelines.

Unthinking, uncaring natural selection drives all changes in lifeforms that inhabit this universe and perhaps others.

As more people inhabit the area, the floods will become more and more disasterous.

Most who inhabit this reply site have some scientific knowledge and are amused by stupidity.

The diversity of worms that potentially inhabit you is astounding, both in kind and form.

Biologists haven't yet charted the full range of human tissue it can inhabit or attack.

One way to be certain that beneficial insects inhabit your garden is to introduce them yourself.

Free the wispy white spirits from the subterranean caverns they inhabit to progress through this puzzle game.

As a result, all species inhabit bodies imperfect for the lives they live.

And for a moment, as the actors fully inhabit their characters.

When the otter population is struggling, the near-shore waters they inhabit may be in trouble.

Jace will be one of the characters that players can inhabit when playing the campaign with.

My statements may have been more displeasing to the audience because they inhabit the realm of the plausible.

Census figures show that four in five people inhabit flats rather than houses.

What the researchers have found, they say, is a method for allowing humans to better inhabit non-flesh-and-blood consciousness.

For those who inhabit the movie world few topics have provoked more table talk.

There is also a structural difficulty: national governments still inhabit worlds of partisan party politics.

The creatures, which are also known as cone shells, inhabit the world's dwindling coral reefs.

Many more young stars inhabit this region than are visible in this image, but they are hidden by gas and dust.

Roxas's attack and delicately intense way of seeming to inhabit each moment made her the more overtly dramatic of the two.

There's a comfort in seeing the different ways in which faculty and graduate students inhabit the conference:.

As long as humans inhabit the earth, they will continue to do things to say they are a world record holder.

Examine the creatures that inhabit the gulf and its wetlands, and how they've been impacted by the spill.

The ballets in the troupe's second all-Balanchine program are glorious works of art to behold and to inhabit.

Conversely, the earth is larger than ourselves and will survive despite any activities from us that inhabit it.

Of course, causing a musician's musical style to inhabit a device would require a new type of licensing deal.

Other forms of psychosis may envelop the sufferers until they inhabit the delusion.

There are no worlds to inhabit or fight over anywhere within realistic distances.

Viruses inhabit the realm between life and the inanimate, something quite foreign to our traditional world-view.

All you have to do to get the measles is to inhabit the airspace of a contagious person within two hours of them being there.

Actors need time to fully inhabit their roles but such explorations are often cut short by limited runs.

The creatures that inhabit the world's oceans run the full spectrum of colors-often in intricate.

Ledger transformed himself utterly to inhabit the twisted comic book supervillain, body and soul.

The two seem to inhabit separate but contiguous worlds at first.

We have a large solar system to inhabit and an asteroid belt to mine.

The students are less distinctively characterized than the settings they inhabit.

Pay no mind to the delusional trolls that inhabit this site.

The creatures that inhabit the world's oceans run the full spectrum of colors.

Joy and a couple of permanent staffers inhabit a cheerful clutter of exotic gear, whiteboard, and piles of books.

But they agreed frogs may be particularly sensitive to pollution, since they inhabit earth, air and water.

But because such fish often inhabit deep, murky waters in remote.

These particular bryozoans don't inhabit the deep or any part of the salt sea, but are surface freshwater.

And several of these arachnids often inhabit the same tree, suggesting they may be one of the few spiders with a social life.

More preparing food for his brood of ravenous youngsters who inhabit a remodeled windmill with him on the south-of-England downs.

It is insensitive to other humans who inhabit this world and abuses their rights to preserve what it believes is right.

The ponies must share limited food and water resources with other threatened and endangered species that inhabit the island.

Usually, the chemical that inhabit your brain normally are full agonists for the receptors they hit.

Wildlife and wild spaces they inhabit take on an ethereal quality through his lens.

Learn about the mammals and birds that inhabit this country as well as which areas have been protected by the government.

Examine the creatures that inhabit the gulf and its wetlands, and see how they have been affected by the disaster.

Known for their brilliant colors, these corals inhabit the shallow areas of coral reefs.

Study the animals of the earth and the places they inhabit.

The desert crocodiles inhabit two types of wetlands: lowland wetlands and a type of wetland known as a guelta.

Spirits inhabit the waters and require homage or deference.

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World English Dictionary

inhabit (ɪnˈhæbɪt)

—vb , -its, -iting, -ited
1.	(tr) to live or dwell in; occupy
2.	archaic (intr) to abide or dwell

[C14: from Latin inhabitāre, from habitāre to dwell]

in'habitable

—*adj*

inhabita'bility

—n

inhabi'tation

—n

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Word Origin & History

inhabit

late 14c., from O.Fr. enhabiter "dwell in" (12c.), from L. inhabitare, from in- "in" + habitare "to dwell," frequentative of habere "hold, have" (see habit). Inhabitant first recorded mid-15c. Inhabitable was used in two opposite senses: "not habitable" (c.1400, from in- "not"

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+ habitable) and "capable of being inhabited" (c.1600, from inhabit + -able).

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"Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future."

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