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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#m1)

2) (formal) To inhabit can also mean to be present in something: «strange creatures inhabit her stories». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x1)
- Which animals inhabit a pond? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x2)
- People have inhabited this valley for thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x3)
- The island is not inhabited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x4)
- Bats inhabit the old church tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x5)
- The town has twenty thousand inhabitants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x6)
- Many creatures inhabit the deep ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x7)
- The BIRCH NYMPH is a melancholy maiden with floating hair, resembling the branches of the pale and fragile-looking tree which she inhabits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/7/)
- [And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.16/)
- [And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1397/)
- [But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.73/)
- [Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1267/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inhabit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.