Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: inhabit
IPA transcription: [,ɪnh'æbət]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: inhabit
    Meaning: be present in; "sweet memories inhabit this house"
Usage examples
  • In some species of the genus, probably in all, the sexes pair and inhabit the same burrow.
  • But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.
  • The peasantry, who inhabit the wilderness beyond, say that I am mad. That is because I will have nothing to do with them.
  • One day she accompanied me upon some household errand into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.
  • So that with these nudibranch molluscs, colour apparently does not stand in any close relation to the nature of the places which they inhabit.
  • Merlin was the son of no mortal father, but of an Incubus, one of a class of beings not absolutely wicked, but far from good, who inhabit the regions of the air.
  • But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least wellbeing, in the part of the universe which we inhabit.