habitations

habitations is the plural of habitation.

Meaning of habitation

habitation (countable and uncountable, plural habitations)

(uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
- And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials...1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 24, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC
(countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
- And as imagination bodies forth
  The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
  Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
  A local habitation and a name.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.

habitation (plural habitations)

What is habitations the plural of?: Habitations is the plural of habitation.

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