inhabit
verb🔊/ɪnˈhæbɪt/
🔊/ɪnˈhæbɪt/
(formal)Word Family
- inhabit verb
- habitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabited adjective (≠ uninhabited)
- inhabitant noun
- habitation noun
- inhabit something
to live in a particular place 居住在；栖居于 Some of the rare species that inhabit the area are under threat. 栖息在这个地区的一些珍稀物种正面临威胁。 He reflected on what a strange world Stephen and Veronica inhabited. 他思考了斯蒂芬和维罗妮卡所居住的陌生世界。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInhabit is used with these nouns as the subject:- population
- area
- character
- earth
- …
Word Originlate Middle English inhabite, enhabite, from Old French enhabiter or Latin inhabitare, from in- ‘in’ + habitare ‘dwell’ (from habere ‘have’).