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inhabited

adjective

in·​hab·​it·​ed in-ˈha-bə-təd How to pronounce inhabited (audio)
: having inhabitants

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Despite standing in one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, the iconic moai of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) can now be experienced from the comfort of your home. Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 The head of the Jab’a village council, Diab Masha’leh, told Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, on Monday that the settlers attacked the village and set fire to three inhabited homes and three vehicles. Dana Karni, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025 Santana, 64, was previously charged on suspicion of firing into an inhabited building and assault with a semi-automatic firearm. Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhabited

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First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of inhabited was in the 15th century

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“Inhabited.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inhabited. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.

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