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Habitation   /hˌæbətˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Habitation

noun
1.
The native habitat or home of an animal or plant.
2.
Housing that someone is living in.  Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home.  "They raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
3.
The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men).  Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation.



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"Habitation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Priene to his players for a habitation, and set sail for Athens, where fresh sports and play-acting employed him. Cleopatra, jealous of the honors Octavia had received at Athens (for Octavia was much beloved by the Athenians), courted the favor of ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... is fallen, is fallen, And is become the habitation of devils, And the hold of every foul spirit, And a cage of every unclean and hateful bird; For God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, And double unto her double according to her works. How much hath ...
— The Martyr of the Catacombs - A Tale of Ancient Rome • Anonymous

... the sea as we trudged across the meadows towards a high, dome-shaped dune covered with cedars and thickets of sweet bay. I saw no sign of habitation among the sand-hills. Far as the eye could reach, nothing broke the gray line of sea and sky save the squat dunes crowned ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

... and busy imaginations, crowded with a multitude of images, refuse to yield to the command, "Be still, and know that I am God." I have, indeed, found that in whatever circumstances I may he placed, I can never be really happy without the religion of the heart; without making the Lord my habitation; and oh, may it be mine, through Christ's humbling and sanctifying operations, to know every corner of my heart made fit for the dwelling-place of Him who is with the meek and contrite ones. Then shall the remaining days of my pilgrimage be occupied in the energetic ...
— A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, - of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England • Eliza Southall

... get rid of me, and intended to leave me here in this inhospitable swamp, away from any human habitation, and with nothing in sight but ...
— Desk and Debit - or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk • Oliver Optic


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