inhabit

«inhabit» in Mova's school dictionary: to live in it: «polar bears inhabit the Arctic» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (inhabit, inhabits, inhabited, inhabiting)

meaning for a pupil

1) To inhabit a place means to live in it: «polar bears inhabit the Arctic». tree →

2) (formal) To inhabit can also mean to be present in something: «strange creatures inhabit her stories». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons «inhabit» is used for where living things and people live: «Which animals inhabit the rainforest?». Related words are «inhabitant» (a person or animal that lives somewhere), «habitat» (the natural home of a living thing) and «uninhabited» (with nobody living there: «an uninhabited island»). In maths and geography, «the town has ten thousand inhabitants» gives its population.

examples

• Penguins inhabit the cold seas of the southern hemisphere. tree →
• Which animals inhabit a pond? tree →
• People have inhabited this valley for thousands of years. tree →
• The island is not inhabited. tree →
• Bats inhabit the old church tower. tree →
• The town has twenty thousand inhabitants. tree →
• Many creatures inhabit the deep ocean. tree →
• The BIRCH NYMPH is a melancholy maiden with floating hair, resembling the branches of the pale and fragile-looking tree which she inhabits. tree →

note

Past «inhabited». It takes an object directly: «inhabit the forest», not «inhabit in the forest». Trap: «inhabited» means lived in, and «uninhabited» means not lived in — but «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in (here «in-» does not mean «not»). Formal; in everyday talk say «live in».

In the corpora

• The five rings stand for the inhabited continents coming together, but no ring officially belongs to one continent.
• And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.
• And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
• But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
• Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inhabit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.