HABITATION Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

habitation

noun

ˌha-bə-ˈtā-shən

Definition of habitation

as in occupancy

the act or fact of residing in a place the city declared the area unsafe for habitation until it had been decontaminated

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as in residence

the place where one lives even though they spend most of their time at their condo in Florida, they still consider their farmhouse in Nebraska their permanent habitation

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Recent Examples of habitation Vehicles cannot be rented or leased for human habitation on public streets. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026 He is credited as the first and most significant contributor to South Florida archaeology of the time, classifying materials, recording 49 sites across Miami-Dade and making the first outline of a chronology of indigenous habitation. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Combined with Cape Ann’s northeasterly location along the East Coast jutting out into the Atlantic, the lighthouse would have been one of the first signs of human habitation people making the trip from Western Europe to America would have seen. — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 Cornelius Houston will face charges of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit other felony and unlawful restraint, according to Fort Worth jail records. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for habitation

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Noun

But elevated fuel costs have made executives more willing to sacrifice occupancy and avoid discounts.

— Reuters, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, for instance, has struggled with occupancy despite major marketing campaigns and has accumulated nearly $700 million in losses since 2017, according to the Financial Times.

— Contessa Brewer,Ryan Ruggiero, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of occupancy

Noun

The caller said a man was inside the residence and had fired a gun.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
It was commissioned to produce stationery for Queen Victoria’s residences in the 1890s, and is known for making the world’s first portable diary in 1908.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of residence

Noun

And though some Palestinians were justly fighting to end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and to create an independent state, others were waging an unjust war to destroy Israel altogether.

— Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Across 25 occupations that past technology upended, employment fell an extra 4% over five years for every point the national unemployment rate climbed.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of occupation

Noun

The beautiful, bright, and incredibly chic three-story abode leads up to a private roof terrace covered in pines with a freezing plunge pool at its center, and an unassuming wooden door that leads to a private sauna.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Triad is one of the biggest names in chattel mortgages — or a home loan used on a movable abode, where the owner doesn't necessarily own the land underneath.

— Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of abode

Noun

The cooking stove often doubled as the dwelling’s heat source.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
By 2024, RealPage controlled roughly 80 percent of the real estate revenue management market for multifamily dwellings and held the keys to datasets from approximately sixteen million rental units nationwide.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of dwelling

Noun

The country's upper house of parliament voted last month to require UBS to hold 90% of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital, or about $16 billion in extra shares, as collateral to support its foreign subsidiaries.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
The stranger’s dress had been stored in the family’s house for more than a decade.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of house

Noun

Ranchers were no longer crossing into New Mexico and spending money on supplies, lodging and food, and farmers had no customers for their alfalfa and grain.

— Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
For that program, the Walker Youngbird Foundation gave $50,000 to cover production costs, travel, and lodging, and a $10,000 artist stipend.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of lodging

Noun

To turn rigid solar tech into bendable panels that can roll over backpacks or car roofs, researchers had to fix a major manufacturing flaw in flexible perovskite solar cells.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Each left and right trio of legs is connected by a beam running front to back, while the left legs connect with their right counterparts via transverse crossbeams, creating a big rectangular roof frame.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

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