inhabited

«inhabited» in Mova's school dictionary: Having people or animals living in it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (inhabited); verb (inhabit, inhabits, inhabited, inhabiting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Having people or animals living in it. tree →

2) (verb, past) Lived in a place, as in «Dinosaurs inhabited the land». tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography: inhabited islands vs uninhabited islands; the most inhabited (populated) places. In science: animals inhabit habitats. In stories: an inhabited cave, an inhabited planet. Phrases: densely inhabited.

examples

• Only three of the islands are inhabited. tree →
• Is the old house still inhabited? tree →
• Dinosaurs inhabited the Earth long ago. tree →
• Penguins inhabit cold southern seas. tree →
• Scientists search for other inhabited planets. tree →
• The cave was inhabited by bats. tree →
• It was inhabited, for the smoke curled up thickly from the chimneys. tree →

note

Trap: «inhabited» means lived in; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there (not «inhabitable», which means suitable to live in). Person: inhabitant. Related: habitat.

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.
• But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

Trees and pragmatics

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