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INHABITANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inhabitancy mean? 

INHABITANCY (noun)
  The noun INHABITANCY has 1 sense:

1. the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)play

  Familiarity information: INHABITANCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INHABITANCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation

Context example:

he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony

Hypernyms ("inhabitancy" is a kind of...):

occupancy; tenancy (an act of being a tenant or occupant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inhabitancy"):

cohabitation (the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married))

bivouacking; camping; encampment; tenting (the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp)

Derivation:

inhabit (be an inhabitant of or reside in)


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