Word Meanings - HABITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HABITATION)

• Abode
• Home
• stay
• placate
• residence
• domicile
• habitation
• lodging
• berth
• quarters

Related words: (words related to HABITATION)

• BERTH
  Convenient sea room. A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth."
• LODGMENT
  The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. (more info) 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to
• BERTHA
  A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
• LODGEABLE
  1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
• LODGING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor;
• DOMICILE
  A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. Wharton. (more info) 1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or
• BERTHAGE
  A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
• HABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
• ABODEMENT
  A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
• LODGER
  One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
• RESIDENCE
  The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
• ABODE
  of Abide.
• QUARTERSTAFF
  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
• BERTHIERITE
  A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
• LODGED
  Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
• PLACATE
  See 5
• BERTHING
  The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.
• LODGEMENT
  See LODGMENT
• LODGE
  The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond. 3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• RELODGE
  To lodge again.
• HEADQUARTERS
  The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. The brain, which is the
• DISLODGE
  1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or
• DISLODGMENT
  The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.