habitat
/ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/
habitat noun: conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
Noun
habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)
- Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
- This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.
- A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
- A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species.2006, John Davenport, Julia L. Davenport, The Ecology of Transportation, page 248
- A place in which a person lives.
- this book is just the impetus you need to clear the clutter and reorganize your habitat.2006 June, Jessica Houssian, “Hot List”, in Bazaar, number 3535, page 146
habitat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
habitat in Hindi
- natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
- वास vās
habitat in Tamil
- வாழிடம், இருப்பிடம், உய்விடம், வளரிடம், சஞ்சாரம் செய்யும் இடம்
habitat in Marathi
- natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives
- अधिवास adhivās, प्राकृतिक वास prākŕtik vās
habitat in Urdu
- گھر, جائے پیدائش, وطن
More languagesFewer languages
- habitat in Bengali
- বাসস্থান baśosthan
- habitat in Telugu
- ఆవాసం
- habitat in Malayalam
- ഇരിപ്പിടം, സ്ഥിര താവളം
- habitat in Kannada
- ಇಕ್ಕೆ, ನೆಲೆ, ಬೀಡು, ವಾಸಮಾಡುವುದು
- habitat in Tagalog
- tirahanan
- habitat in Arabic
- مَوْطِن mawṭin
- habitat in Malay
- habitat
- habitat in Indonesian
- biotop, habitat, tempat hidup
- habitat in Persian
- زیستگاه zistgâh
Examples of habitat in a sentence
- The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
- From this vantage point we can observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitat.
- The eat-outs left by a coypu may disrupt the habitat for other organisms.
Forms of habitat
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Origin of habitat
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“to live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
Words formed from habitat
Phrases with habitat
Questions about habitat
- What does habitat mean?
- Habitat means conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
- What is habitat in Hindi?
- Habitat in Hindi is वास (vās). See Habitat meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is habitat?
- Habitat is a noun.
- How do you pronounce habitat?
- Habitat is pronounced /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/ (US).
- What is the plural of habitat?
- The plural of habitat is habitats.
Words near habitat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: habitat (page history and authors); habitat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); habitat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বাসস্থান (Bengali) (page history and authors); habitat (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); habitat (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); habitat (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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