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INHABITED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having inhabitants; lived in
Example:
the inhabited regions of the earth
Classified under:
Similar:
colonised; colonized; settled (inhabited by colonists)
haunted (inhabited by or as if by apparitions)
occupied; tenanted (resided in; having tenants)
owner-occupied (lived in by the owner)
peopled (furnished with people)
populated (furnished with inhabitants)
populous; thickly settled (densely populated)
rock-inhabiting (of ferns and lichens that grow on rocks)
underpopulated (having a lower population density than normal or desirable)
Antonym:
uninhabited (not having inhabitants; not lived in)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb inhabit
Context examples:
The second floor is inhabited by Daulat Ras, the Indian.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Like humans and other mammals, mice are inhabited by large, diverse microbial populations collectively called the microbiome.
(Scientists find microbes on the skin of mice promote tissue healing, immunity, National Institutes of Health)
This is the place in the horoscope that echoes the womb, the place you inhabited before you were born.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A room at an inn was always damp and dangerous; never properly aired, or fit to be inhabited.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The South Atlantic is inhabited by 51 species of cetaceans.
(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A country in western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cameroon and Gabon; composed of a mainland portion and five inhabited islands.
(Equatorial Guinea, NCI Thesaurus)
The science that deals with the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
(Geography, NCI Thesaurus)
