Habitation
The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
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Habitation Quotations
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Christopher Columbus
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs
Habitation Translations
habitation in Dutch is bewoning
habitation in German is Wohnung
habitation in Norwegian is bolig
habitation in Swedish is boningsplats, boning
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