What does habitation mean?
Word: Habitation
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Habitation means the act of living in a place; also a house or place where people live.
Synonyms: dwelling, residence
How do you spell habitation?
Syllables: hab - i - ta - tion
Tricky part: The ending is tion, as in station, never sion or shun, even though it is said 'shun'.
Watch out for: habitasion, habitacion
Memory tip: Pigeons treat a railway station as a home, so habitation and station share the same tion ending!
Habitation in a sentence
Example 1: Tigers stay away from areas of dense human habitation.
Example 2: The village grew up around a small habitation on the riverbank.
Example 3: Scientists are studying Mars as a possible place for future human habitation.
Fun Fact
At Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh, archaeologists have found rock shelters showing human habitation over many thousands of years, along with famous cave paintings.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
hab_t_tion
a) e, a
b) i, i
c) i, a
d) a, a
Show answer
c) i, a. The second and third syllables hold a short i and then a long a sound.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
habbitation
a) a
b) t
c) b
d) h
Show answer
c) b. Only one b follows the ha.
Mingle-Mangle
Which word do the jumbled letters in the sentence spell?
Archaeologists found old pots and hearths that point to early hitnaaitob beside the lake.
a) meditation
b) hesitation
c) invitation
d) habitation
Show answer
d) habitation. Hesitation needs an s and an e, invitation a v and an n, meditation an m and a d; only habitation has the h and the b.
Spell-o-Spell
Three of these words are misspelt. Choose the meaning of the correctly spelt one.
1. habitation 2. ecosystim 3. envirnoment 4. wildernes
a) the natural world around us
b) the fact of people living somewhere, or their home
c) a wild area of land with no farms or towns
d) all the living things in an area and how they depend on each other
Show answer
b) the fact of people living somewhere, or their home. Environment has iron in the middle, ecosystem ends in em, and wilderness ends in a double s.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which building is unfit for human habitation?
a) a new flat with two bedrooms
b) one with no roof or water supply
c) a farmhouse with a garden
d) a hostel near a college
Show answer
b) one with no roof or water supply
2. The Moon shows no signs of habitation. This means ____.
a) nobody has ever seen it
b) nobody lives there
c) it gives no light
d) it has no rocks
Show answer
b) nobody lives there
