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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
habitable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Japan is mostly mountainous and has a only a relatively narrow strip of habitable land along the coasts.
▪ There are already plans to renovate the buildings and make them habitable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As soon as the new building's habitable.
▪ Many inner cities that were once treated as war zones have become pleasant and habitable again.
▪ Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable.
▪ The villas themselves looked better than before, deserted except for the few that were privately owned and still habitable.
▪ There are so many planets out there, some of them habitable.
▪ They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia.
▪ This process of constructing habitable environments on Mars can be begun at once.
▪ Two rooms are habitable, with a battered fridge, bedding, sofa, and gas-stove.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habitable

Habitable \Hab"it*a*ble\ (h[a^]b"[i^]t*[.a]*b'l), a. [F. habitable, L. habitabilis.] Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world. -- Hab"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Hab"it*a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
habitable

late 14c., from Old French habitable "suitable for human dwelling" (14c.), from Latin habitabilis "that is fit to live in," from habitare "to inhabit, dwell" (see habitat). Related: Habitably; habitability.

Wiktionary
habitable

a. Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

WordNet
habitable

adj. fit for habitation; "the habitable world" [syn: inhabitable]

Usage examples of "habitable".

Every external wall or enclosing wall of habitable rooms or their appurtenances or cellars which abuts against the earth shall be protected by materials impervious to moisture to the satisfaction of the district surveyor.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation.

Phemus Circle, and found that little cluster of twenty-three suns and sixty-two habitable planets limned in muddy brown, at the point where the overlapping boundaries of the three dominant clades converged.

CRYSTAL SPIRIT, the Facers plan to launch their own expedition to a habitable extra solar planet called Yggdrasil, which circles Eta Cassiopeia, some twenty light years from our Sun.

Erehwon, now that there was the Fiver, the other two habitable planets could be explored to see if one was less dangerous.

It consists of one barely habitable inhabited planet, dozens of lifeless star systems, some fluky subspace readings that are probably just instrumentation errors, and about sixty-six thousand cubic parsecs of otherwise extraordinarily uninteresting space.

He is determined to settle humanity among the habitable worlds of other stars, and has made a creditable start upon the planet Marn.

The hundreds of prisoners on the barge still railed against the Borellian Nomen, begging them to find the nearest habitable planet and plot a course there.

Magna was part of the Septagon system, a loosely coupled cluster of brown dwarf stars with no habitable planets, settled centuries ago.

Star Wars The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers CHAPTER 1 Above a dead world, one habitable moon hung suspended like a cloud-veiled turquoise.

Ylyd and K-2, there were only a couple of marginally habitable planets in their solar system.

The cruder early notions of resettling the land by fostering peasant proprietorship, with habitable houses and security of tenure, were already under a cloud, since it was more than suspected that they would interfere unduly with the game laws and other soundly vested interests.

The resulting caverns were expanded, regularized into cylindrical shapes, the surface sculpted into a landscape, sealed, then turned into habitable biospheres.

The atmosphere-containment fields closed behind them and repressurized the habitable area.

It was only a prolonged storm in Chrystianaville, but out in the countryside, a previously habitable strip of land was either being scorched barren by blasts of superheated air or turned into permafrost by sub-zero gales.