Word Finder - habitation

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The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

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A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.

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A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.

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A farm.

The same is true of habitation taxes.

Little houses are frequently erected over the grave as a habitation for the spirit.

The years of habitation gave the place a thousand smells, none of them pleas­ant.

For Bjarmaland, though it gained a local habitation, is also in Norse tradition a wholly mythical and mythological place, more or less identical with the underworld (Niflhel, mist-hell).

In the south of the district, along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, lie the forest tracts of the Sundarbans, the habitation of tigers, leopards and other wild beasts.

Many of these houses will be unfit for habitation.

The meadow was a tranquil site, far removed from main roads of present day habitation.

He dwells in this holy habitation in the person of the Spirit.

The line was thus continued to a station taking its name from Bulgurlu, a small straggling village four miles away, between which and Eregli there is not a single habitation.

The Bushmen have left in drawings on caves and in rocks traces of their habitation in regions where they are no longer to be found.

Chinchilla, La Plata, incorrectly named and known in the trade as "bastard chinchilla," size 9 X4 in., in a similar species, but owing to lower altitudes and warmer climatic conditions of habitation is smaller, with shorter and less beautiful fur, the underwool colour being darker and the top colour less pure.

King (1966) records that species of both of these genera tend to grow on garbage dumps around human habitation.

Why has the populous city become an habitation for the beasts of the desert?

East, to find any habitation, you have to hunt a bit - it stays away from the road.

And not only so, but are made a spiritual habitation of God, growing into a holy temple in the Lord.

An undefinable something about the room seemed to suggest masculine habitation.

Hendon evidence suggests the possibility of settlement near Church End and Hendon Grove, and rubbish pits at Burnt Oak indicate possible habitation there.

How can human habitation ever be right for cats?

Traces of prehistoric habitation have been found in Buckinghamshire.

This is truly an idyllic hideaway, accessed by a single track road, the nearest habitation being some distance away.

Burial cairns and stone circles, rock carvings and standing stones, duns and hillforts speak of millennia of continuous habitation.

And dining with quot per se age habitation and water and beach.

Ask for a Una habitation doble, which will be a room with two single beds.

Una habitation doble, which will be a room with two single beds.

Father Enfantin held fast by his ideal to the end, but he had renounced the hope of giving it a local habitation and a name in the degenerate obstinate world.

From thiscurious habitation the young mantids hang by threads till after their first moult (see Mantis).

Anna's New World of Words, 1611) translates as "a frock, a horseman's cote, a long cote; also a habitation or dwelling," and it is usually held that this in turn is derived from casa, a house (cf.

By the Britons the spot seems to have been called Ynys yr Afalon (latinized as Avallonia) or Ynysvitrin (see Avalon), and it became the local habitation of various fragments of Celtic romance.

For it is only the conquering Spirit sloughing away its human habitation for a better Life.

The cycle of chi energy as it manifests throughout the world is one that mankind disturbs and interrupts with construction and habitation.

Just as biologists patiently wait for shy animals to emerge from the forest to be captured on camera, Sasquatch hunters must also remain patient since it's believed that the elusive creature shies away from human habitation.

The Royal high school, the burgh school par excellence, dates from the 16th century, but the beautiful Grecian buildings on the southern face of Calton Hill, opened in 1829, are its third habitation.

The catastrophe of " the land of the north " is near to come; then the exiles of Zion shall stream back from all quarters, the converted heathen shall join them, Yahweh Himself will dwell in the midst of them, and even now He stirs Himself from His holy habitation.

In the main island the black bear (kuma, Ursusjaponicus) alone has its habitation, but the island of Yezo has the great brown bear (called shi-guma, oki-kuma or aka-kuma), the grisly of North America.

The elevation of Johannesburg makes it, despite its nearness to the tropics, a healthy place for European habitation.

When they erect a new habitation they fell the wood early in summer, but seldom begin building till towards the end of August.

The usual habitation built both by Arabs and Nubas is the tukl, a conical-shaped hut made of stone, mud, wattle and daub or straw.

The result was that in numerous parishes the police were occupied in searching for the priest who was living there among the people; although his habitation was known to hundreds of people, the police seldom succeeded in arresting him.

The primary idea of sepulture appears to have been the provision of a habitation for the dead; and thus, in its perfect form, the barrow included a chamber or chambers where the tenant was surrounded with the prized possessions of his previous life.

The federation of Acarnania is of peculiar interest as being formed by scattered villages or tribes, without settled, still less fortified, habitation.

The last-named species has a straight symmetrical abdomen, with the penultimate segment expanded and strongly calcified to form a back-door to the very unconventional habitation.

Mythologically she was the daughter (or the eye) of the sun-god Re; but she became Lady of Heaven and Queen of Earth, and even Lady of the land of the West, the mysterious habitation of the dead.

It was largely due to his advocacy that the new St Thomas's Hospital was rebuilt on its present site after it was compelled to leave its old habitation near London Bridge.

The second part of the act deals with unhealthy dwellinghouses, and requires the urban district council to take steps for the closing of any dwelling-houses within their district which are unfit for human habitation.

The position on 5/11 was an utterly desolate desert, many miles from any obvious water or habitation.

The pieces of gray chert were found on the tourist path below slopes too steep for human habitation.

This is a very distinctive Bush-shrike which is generally unobtrusive but does become more confiding in open gardens and close to human habitation.

About 10 years ago they sent a surveyor in, who declared the building unfit for human habitation.

For example, the dwelling may be structurally unsound or incapable of habitation.

In 1866-1867, however, a serious outbreak of cholera again threatened it with ruin; but improved sanitation, the provision of a supply of pure water and the demolition of a mass of houses unfit for habitation soon effected a radical cure.