Definition of inhabit
transitive verb
1 : to occupy as a place of settled residence or habitat : live in inhabit a small house
2 : to be present in or occupy in any manner or form the human beings who inhabit this tale — Al Newman
intransitive verb
archaic : to have residence in a place : dwell
inhabiter
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of inhabit in a Sentence
Several hundred species of birds inhabit the island.
This part of the country is inhabited by native tribes.
There is a romantic quality that inhabits all her paintings.
The novel is inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.
Recent Examples of inhabit from the Web
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Most describe the creature, called Normie, as looking like the famed Loch Ness monster that allegedly inhabits Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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The mural itself is meant to represent its place and the people who inhabit it.
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In Crashing, the property guardianship is a hospital, inhabited by six volatile young people with no sense of boundaries whatsoever.
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Including but certainly not limited to: the amount of chairs available, the summer camps also inhabiting the space and the temperature outside.
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Mach inhabits his character with great physicality, giving the illusion of Quasimodo’s deformity by contorting his own body — and with a little help from Bromelmeier’s jacket with hump.
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The Echo Show feels like a significant step toward Amazon's vision of a world inhabited by semantic computing devices.
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On the opposite side of the island from Horseshoe Bay is St. George's, the oldest continually inhabited English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
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Baseball cards were ubiquitous in the world postwar American kids inhabited.
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Origin and Etymology of inhabit
Middle English enhabiten, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French inhabiter, enhabiter, from Latin inhabitare, from in- + habitare to dwell, frequentative of habēre to have — more at give
INHABIT Defined for English Language Learners
inhabit
playDefinition of inhabit for English Language Learners
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: to live in (a place) : to have a home in (a place)
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: to be present in (something)
INHABIT Defined for Kids
inhabit
playDefinition of inhabit for Students
inhabited
;inhabiting
: to live or dwell in
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