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

2) (verb, past) Lived in a place, as in «Dinosaurs inhabited the land». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x1)
- Is the old house still inhabited? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x2)
- Dinosaurs inhabited the Earth long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x3)
- Penguins inhabit cold southern seas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x4)
- Scientists search for other inhabited planets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x5)
- The cave was inhabited by bats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x6)
- It was inhabited, for the smoke curled up thickly from the chimneys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabited/#x7)

### 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.](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/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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