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HABITABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fit for habitation
Example:
the habitable world
Synonyms:
habitable; inhabitable
Classified under:
Similar:
livable; liveable (fit or suitable to live in or with)
Derivation:
habitability; habitableness (suitability for living in or on)
Context examples:
Proxima B is believed roughly Earth-sized and in its solar system's habitable zone, meaning it would have similar gravity to Earth and at least the possibility of liquid water.
(Simulations show planet orbiting Proxima Centauri could have liquid water, Wikinews)
One of the reasons Earth has remained habitable is that this chemical cycle is slightly imbalanced, Hemingway says.
(Carbon hides in sediment, keeping oxygen in atmosphere, National Science Foundation)
To suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The newly discovered super-Earth LHS 1140b orbits in the habitable zone around a faint red dwarf star named LHS 1140, in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster).
(Super-Earth in Habitable Zone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You are aware that this mansion is one of the oldest in England; but you are not aware that it has been built with a very special eye to concealment, that there are no less than two habitable secret chambers, and that the outer or thicker walls are tunnelled into passages.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For the first time, researchers have detected water vapor signatures in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system that resides in the habitable zone, the region around a star in which liquid water could potentially pool on the surface of a rocky planet.
(Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for 1st Time, NASA)
The aspect was so favourable that even without a fire it was habitable in many an early spring and late autumn morning to such a willing mind as Fanny's; and while there was a gleam of sunshine she hoped not to be driven from it entirely, even when winter came.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
