HABITATIONS Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

habitations

noun

plural of habitation

as in occupancies

the act or fact of residing in a place the city declared the area unsafe for habitation until it had been decontaminated

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as in dwellings

the place where one lives even though they spend most of their time at their condo in Florida, they still consider their farmhouse in Nebraska their permanent habitation

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Recent Examples of habitations Wild elephants often stray into human habitations this time of year, when rice fields are ready for harvesting. —

CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025 Such defensive settlements became the norm in areas vulnerable to slave-raiding, with individual houses and collective habitations undergoing significant transformations. —

Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025 Photojournalist Ann Hermes traveled to the offices of the Ipswich Local News (Massachusetts), the Juneau Empire (Alaska), and 50 more newsrooms in between to document the endangered local journalist’s increasingly dim and drafty habitations. —

Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 1 Dec. 2025

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Homes built closely on zero lot lines with dense suburban single- and multi-family occupancies place families and homes in the path of bigger, louder and stronger fireworks.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
Roughly half reached new peak occupancies either in June or July.

— Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025