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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inhabit
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
now
▪ A plurality of peoples now inhabit most places on this earth.
▪ The last major eruption occurred 1, 100 years ago, when mudslides cascaded on to areas now inhabited by millions of people.
only
▪ There would be no possibility of it in a non-spatial world, or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings.
▪ The land was inhabited only by sheep and rabbits, and the air was inhabited by birds.
▪ The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters.
▪ Her house is in ruins now, covered with flowering weeds and inhabited only by seagulls.
■ NOUN
area
▪ I've no idea what sort of people inhabit the area.
▪ They use an intricate formula to extrapolate how many are snakes inhabiting an area.
▪ However, there is abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas.
▪ The eighteen-month bloodbath that ensued took place in inhabited areas, not in the hinterlands.
body
▪ During the long weeks he dreams of being hunted, inhabiting the body of the beast he pursues.
▪ Steve is annoyed and Amy furious at my glib suggestion that their late beloved Kiwi inhabits the body of a stranger cat.
creature
▪ Sam is likely to play one of the childlike creatures who inhabit the earth 800 years in the future.
▪ What is the largest air-breathing creature ever to inhabit the earth?
▪ The creatures who inhabit it are cold and greedy and evil and corrupt.
▪ Few creatures inhabit the ocean floor, where there is no light to sustain them.
house
▪ And now they inhabited their house.
island
▪ And I do not think that it means, as counsel argued, the individuals who inhabit these islands.
▪ The greatest resistance to union came primarily from the Gaelic peoples who inhabited the largest separate island to the west, Ireland.
▪ Although relatively few people inhabit the island, our small community is a constantly changing and very busy one.
people
▪ I've no idea what sort of people inhabit the area.
▪ The plainness of the rooms in this series makes an interesting counterpoint to the fanciful objects and people that inhabit them.
▪ Our dramatispersonae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways.
▪ Was it possible for such a large amount of people as inhabited Athena Gardens to be genuinely so cheerful and contented?
▪ In 1926, the year of his birth, 2 billion people inhabited this planet.
▪ The people who inhabit this world are people like us, people who pass us in the street.
▪ Although relatively few people inhabit the island, our small community is a constantly changing and very busy one.
place
▪ Our dramatispersonae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways.
▪ A plurality of peoples now inhabit most places on this earth.
▪ But new exquisite life can't inhabit such places.
species
▪ Most polar lakes are highly oligotrophic, with clear waters and a very limited range of species inhabiting them.
world
▪ There would be no possibility of it in a non-spatial world, or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings.
▪ But in the world inhabited by Noah Cross, truth does not so easily yield to surveillance.
▪ It will become a virtual world that we inhabit as an observer or a participant.
▪ Animism, the belief that the natural world is inhabited by spirits, is the driving force in Tuvan music.
▪ That is the world inhabited by the hon. Gentleman.
▪ It is clear that the destination of post-mortem existence was a world other than and different from the world human beings inhabit.
▪ Reading such a text we are reminded that the world we inhabit is constructed, not given; constructed in language.
▪ For much of its short history, the computer world was inhabited by a small circle of researchers, students and hobbyists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some tribes still inhabit the more remote mountains and jungles of the country.
▪ The island is mainly inhabited by sheep.
▪ The site once was inhabited by the Ohlone Indians.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhabit

Inhabit \In*hab"it\, v. i. To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide. [Archaic or Poetic]
--Shak.

They say wild beasts inhabit here.
--Waller.

Inhabit

Inhabit \In*hab"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhabited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhabiting.] [OE. enhabiten, OF. enhabiter, L. inhabitare; pref. in- in + habitare to dwell. See Habit.] To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
--Is. lvii. 15.

O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
--Moore.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhabit

late 14c., from Old French enhabiter "dwell in" (12c.), from Latin inhabitare "to dwell in," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + habitare "to dwell," frequentative of habere "hold, have" (see habit (n.)). Related: Inhabited; inhabiting.

Wiktionary
inhabit

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To live or reside in. 2 (context transitive English) To be present in; to occupy.

WordNet
inhabit
  1. v. make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, shack, reside, live, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate]

  2. be present in; be inside of [syn: occupy]

Wikipedia
Inhabit
Inhabitable redirects here.

Inhabit means to live in, reside in, occupy or populate some place.

Inhabit may also refer to:

  • Inhabit (album), an album by Living Sacrifice
  • Inhabited (band), a rock group
Inhabit (album)

Inhabit is the third album by the Christian metal band Living Sacrifice and the final album with bassist/vocalist DJ. The album was recorded at Believer's Trauma Studios. Kurt Bachman and Joey Daub of Believer also produced and engineered this album. It was the final album the band would release while under REX. The album would later be reissued with new artwork on the band's new label, Solid State Records.

Usage examples of "inhabit".

No adzes made of the local tridacna shell, such as were used on most inhabited atolls, were found on Fanning.

The adzes bore resemblances to those of various inhabited Polynesian islands.

He recalled in his affidavit some of these reports of conditions in eight camps inhabited by Russian and Polish workers : overcrowding that bred disease, lack of enough food to keep a man alive, lack of water, lack of toilets.

In that mysterious region known to explorers as the Sargasso Sea, the youth found a weird metal ship surviving from the lost age of High Atlantis, on which there still lived an Atlantean sorceress, an ageless and beautiful creature called Corenice, who inhabits an eternal and deathless body of impervious metal.

Formerly, such a visit would have been attended with great danger to the parties making the attempt, from the number of desperate characters who inhabited the back-slums lying in the rear of Broad-street: where used to be congregated together, the most notorious thieves, beggars, and bunters of the metropolis, amalgamated with the poverty and wretchedness of every country, but more particularly the lower classes of Irish, who still continue to exist in great numbers in the neighbourhood.

Wherever they sailed, the dense schools of amberjack and billfish observed from orbit turned and headed for waters that were colder and deeper than anything they normally inhabited.

Warnings from the College rang in his mind: of what an unbonded Animist must always fear, that his trained and open and above all receptive mind might be an invitation for something else to inhabit.

Billy Anker inhabited the human quarters like two species of animal in the same field.

If Arabin had not been acquainted with the intermittent character of the disease, he would have been at a loss to believe that the person with whom he was in conversation was a fit person to inhabit a lunatic asylum.

He knew that Seakeepdale consisted of all this now visible to him and twice again as much land, but only this one vale was arable to any large extent or permanently inhabited.

Several of these included worlds which, when the early Arachnoid explorers visited them telepathically, were found to be inhabited by native races of pre-utopian rank.

Several of these included worlds which, when the early Arachnoid explorers visited them tele- pathically, were found to be inhabited by native races of pre-utopian rank.

Zarth Arn, the man whose body I now inhabit, is son of the greatest ruler in the galaxy?

But his hunch was that, if an ego-field were ever going to inhabit the Bauble, it would have done so before now.

The only nice thing about these little worms is that, unlike the corn borer, they enter the corn at the tip, and mostly only one worm inhabits an ear.