Definition of inhabits Inhabits
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What does inhabits mean?
Part of speech
🔤- inhabits, verb, present, 3rd person singular of inhabit (infinitive).
WordNet
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| inhabit - be present in; "sweet memories inhabit this house" | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| infest invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen" | ||
| infest, invade, overrun invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen" | ||
| inhabit - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" | ||
| populate, dwell, live | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| live in, sleep in live in the house where one works; "our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her" | ||
| sleep out, live out work in a house where one does not live; "our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home" | ||
| tenant occupy as a tenant | ||
| neighbor, neighbour be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India" | ||
| lodge in, reside, occupy make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" | ||
| domicile, domiciliate, shack, reside make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" | ||
| people fill with people; "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes" | ||
| overpopulate cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" | ||
| cohabit, live together, shack up share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | ||
| lodge put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" | ||
| bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent, camp give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | ||
| nest gather nests | ||
| room, board provide food and lodging (for); "The old lady is boarding three men" | ||
| inhabit - exist or be situated within; "Strange notions inhabited her mind" | ||
| dwell | ||
| exist, be have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- inhabit (v. t.)
To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. - inhabit (v. i.)
To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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inhabit
To have permanent residence.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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inhabit
in-hab′it, v.t. to dwell in: to occupy.—v.i. (Shak.) to dwell.—adj. Inhab′itable, that may be inhabited.—ns. Inhab′itance, Inhab′itancy, the act of inhabiting: actual residence; Inhab′itant, one who inhabits: a resident.—adj. resident.—ns. Inhabitā′tion, the act of inhabiting: dwelling-place: (Milt.) population; Inhab′iter (B.), an inhabitant; Inhab′itiveness, love of locality and home; Inhab′itress, a female inhabitant. [Fr.,—L., from in, in, habitāre, to dwell.]
Part of speech
🔤- inhabit, verb, present, 1st person singular of inhabit (infinitive).
- inhabit, verb (infinitive).
