Meaning of "inhabit" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INHABIT

From Latin inhabitāre, from habitāre to dwell.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF INHABIT

inhabit  [ɪnˈhæbɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INHABIT

Inhabit is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb inhabit in English.

WHAT DOES INHABIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inhabit

Inhabit means to live in, reside in, occupy or populate some place. Inhabit may also refer to: ▪ Inhabit, an album by Living Sacrifice ▪ Inhabited, a rock group...

Definition of inhabit in the English dictionary

The definition of inhabit in the dictionary is to live or dwell in; occupy. Other definition of inhabit is to abide or dwell.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INHABIT

PRESENT

Present

I inhabit

you inhabit

he/she/it inhabits

we inhabit

you inhabit

they inhabit

Present continuous

I am inhabiting

you are inhabiting

he/she/it is inhabiting

we are inhabiting

you are inhabiting

they are inhabiting

Present perfect

I have inhabited

you have inhabited

he/she/it has inhabited

we have inhabited

you have inhabited

they have inhabited

Present perfect continuous

I have been inhabiting

you have been inhabiting

he/she/it has been inhabiting

we have been inhabiting

you have been inhabiting

they have been inhabiting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I inhabited

you inhabited

he/she/it inhabited

we inhabited

you inhabited

they inhabited

Past continuous

I was inhabiting

you were inhabiting

he/she/it was inhabiting

we were inhabiting

you were inhabiting

they were inhabiting

Past perfect

I had inhabited

you had inhabited

he/she/it had inhabited

we had inhabited

you had inhabited

they had inhabited

Past perfect continuous

I had been inhabiting

you had been inhabiting

he/she/it had been inhabiting

we had been inhabiting

you had been inhabiting

they had been inhabiting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will inhabit

you will inhabit

he/she/it will inhabit

we will inhabit

you will inhabit

they will inhabit

Future continuous

I will be inhabiting

you will be inhabiting

he/she/it will be inhabiting

we will be inhabiting

you will be inhabiting

they will be inhabiting

Future perfect

I will have inhabited

you will have inhabited

he/she/it will have inhabited

we will have inhabited

you will have inhabited

they will have inhabited

Future perfect continuous

I will have been inhabiting

you will have been inhabiting

he/she/it will have been inhabiting

we will have been inhabiting

you will have been inhabiting

they will have been inhabiting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would inhabit

you would inhabit

he/she/it would inhabit

we would inhabit

you would inhabit

they would inhabit

Conditional continuous

I would be inhabiting

you would be inhabiting

he/she/it would be inhabiting

we would be inhabiting

you would be inhabiting

they would be inhabiting

Conditional perfect

I would have inhabit

you would have inhabit

he/she/it would have inhabit

we would have inhabit

you would have inhabit

they would have inhabit

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been inhabiting

you would have been inhabiting

he/she/it would have been inhabiting

we would have been inhabiting

you would have been inhabiting

they would have been inhabiting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you inhabit
we let´s inhabit
you inhabit

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to inhabit

Past participle

inhabited

Present Participle

inhabiting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «INHABIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inhabit» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of inhabit

colonize · live in · occupy · people · populate · tenant

TRANSLATION OF INHABIT

Find out the translation of inhabit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of inhabit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inhabit» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 居住于
• Translator English - Spanish: habitar
• English: inhabit
• Translator English - Hindi: वास
• Translator English - Arabic: تسكن
• Translator English - Russian: населяют
• Translator English - Portuguese: habitar
• Translator English - Bengali: বসবাস করা
• Translator English - French: habiter
• Translator English - Malay: Mendiami
• Translator English - German: bewohnen
• Translator English - Japanese: 住む
• Translator English - Korean: 서식하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Dumunung
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sống
• Translator English - Tamil: வசிப்பதாக
• Translator English - Marathi: वास्तव्य
• Translator English - Turkish: yaşamak
• Translator English - Italian: abitare
• Translator English - Polish: zamieszkują
• Translator English - Ukrainian: населяють
• Translator English - Romanian: locuiesc
• Translator English - Greek: κατοικούν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: bewoon
• Translator English - Swedish: bebor
• Translator English - Norwegian: bebo

10 QUOTES WITH «INHABIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inhabit.

1

Maxwell Anderson

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

2

Katie Aselton

As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.

3

David Attenborough

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

4

John Berger

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

5

Sitting Bull

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

6

Raquel Cassidy

Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.

7

Stockard Channing

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

8

Nicholas A. Christakis

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

9

J. M. Coetzee

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

10

Dominic Cooper

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INHABIT»

Discover the use of inhabit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inhabit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Living the Christian Year: Time to Inhabit the Story of God

Bobby Gross presents chapters on each season of the liturgical year, accompanied by weekly devotions based on the Sunday readings of the lectionary cycle.

Bobby Gross, 2009

Sindh and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus

With Notices Of The Topography And History Of Province.

Richard Burton, 1996

Attacking Extreme Poverty: Learning from the Experience of ...

A PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO INHABIT THE EARTH From the very earliest time in my childhood to the present day, the poorest have always seemed to me to be families - a whole people - who were forbidden to inhabit the world ...

Quentin Wodon, 2001

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660

aged 33 and Elizabeth his wife aged 34, and 1 child and 1 servant Thomas Homes, to Boston to inhabit. [ ]es of Norwich, cordwainer aged 28 and I ] with 4 children Samuell, John, Elizabeth and Debra, [ Ins aged 18 and Anne Williames aged ...

Peter Wilson Coldham, 1987

Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition

When HOTCO maps the ruvettus source to the coelecanth target after mapping the centroscysmus source, it creates excitatory links from the inferred proposition INHABIT-NEW with both INHABIT-1 in the first source and INHABIT-2 in the ...

‎2008

Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction

Cities are little more than places where people earn money, speculate on money, or merely live. What should be stunning projects that people inhabit have become dismal habitats, seats of decivilization. Lefebvre uses here the term inhabiting ...

Andy Merrifield, 2006

Annotated List of Fishes Known to Inhabit the Waters of ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1910 Excerpt: .

Henry Carroll Tracy, 2010

British Conchology: Or, an Account of the Mollusca Which Now ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

Jeffreys John Gwyn, 2009

The Disability Studies Reader

7. Abortion. and. Disability. Who. Should. and. Who. Should. Not. Inhabit. the. World? Ruth. Hubbard. Political agitation and education during the past few decades have made most people aware of what constitutes discrimination against ...

Lennard J. Davis, 2006

Studio Art Therapy

The places we inhabit or visit in our daily lives provide us with analogues for some of the various intentions of art therapy studio spaces. For example, a playground has a similar purpose to that of an art therapy studio if the studio is intended to ...

Catherine Hyland Moon, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INHABIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inhabit is used in the context of the following news items.

Formidable Adam Scott eases into contention at St Andrews

... seven-under-par – moved the Australian up towards the part of the leaderboard that he tends to inhabit when Major championships are up for ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»

EXCLUSIVE! Will Dean Gaffney be heading into the Celebrity Big …

... the most famous house in the land must be quivering in anticipation of welcoming the sheer and unmitigated star power that will inhabit its ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

In Hollywood, white privilege yields blindness - USA Today

... it's so Columbus of white people, to 'discover' for themselves an ideological land that nonwhite people already inhabit daily and lifelong.”. «USA TODAY, Jul 15»

KELOLAND.com | Saturday Boredom Busters

Learn about all the creatures that inhabit the Prairie Butterfly Garden at Oahe Downstream Recreation Area at Fort Pierre. The Little Wings on ... «KELOLAND TV, Jul 15»

Timeless Advice for Generation A-Z | Debra Walton - Huffington Post

My advice to the young grads at Baruch, and to all young people today, is simple: You inhabit a world with the most incredible technology the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

John Delaney's year will end with delegates afraid to ask real …

By the June games, however, the section of the ground they inhabit had become a hotbed of hostility towards Delaney. After protest banners in ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»

The faces of New York City's massive 21st century transformation …

... Edge Becomes the Center, I set out to understand how gentrification affects these interactions and the lives of the people who inhabit the city. «Fortune, Jul 15»

Seeing the world through the lens of synesthesia - The Globe and Mail

Unlike most people, you see, I inhabit a world where numbers and letters come in a rainbow of colours: 23 is a yellow-orange sunset, while 67 ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»

Miami advice for Republicans - FT.com

... in the trendy Bread + Butter restaurant in the Gables cast Havana as a sort of 1950s Bacardi ad, where beautiful young white people inhabit a ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

'Fallout Shelter' Review: Subterranean Apocalypse Blues - Forbes

The happy little characters that inhabit your shelter are all adorable, and it's always fun to find new survivors to bring into your midst. Dialog can ... «Forbes, Jul 15»