INHABIT


Meaning of INHABIT in English

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.

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