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ˈhæb ɪ tə bəlhab·it·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. habitable, inhabitableadjective

    fit for habitation

    "the habitable world"

Wiktionary

  1. habitableadjective

    Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

    After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.

  2. Etymology: Originally derived from the habitabilis, from habito.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. HABITABLEadjective

    Capable of being dwelt in; capable of sustaining human creatures.

    Etymology: habitable, Fr. habitabilis, Lat.

    By means of our solitary situation, we know well most part of the habitable world, and are ourselves unknown. Francis Bacon.

    That was her torrid and inflaming time;
    This is her habitable tropique clime. John Donne.

    Look round the habitable world, how few
    Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. habitable

    Habitable refers to an environment or place that is suitable or fit for supporting and sustaining life and human settlement. It typically implies having living conditions such as sufficient space, favorable climate, availability of necessary resources like food, water, and air, and being safe or free from excessive danger or harm.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Habitableadjective

    capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world

  2. Etymology: [F. habitable, L. habitabilis.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Habitable

    hab′it-a-bl, adj. that may be dwelt in.—ns. Habitabil′ity, Hab′itableness.—adv. Hab′itably.—ns. Hab′itant, an inhabitant; Hab′itat, the natural abode or locality of an animal or plant: place of abode generally; Habitā′tion, act of inhabiting: a dwelling or residence: a group, lodge, company, as of the so-called 'Primrose League.' [Fr.,—L. habitabilishabitāre, -ātum, to inhabit, freq. of habēre, to have.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HABITABLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HABITABLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of HABITABLE in a Sentence

  1. Jon Jenkins:

    It’s simply awe-inspiring to consider that this planet has spent 6 billion years in the habitable zone of its star, that’s considerable time and opportunity for life to arise somewhere on its surface or in its oceans should all the necessary ingredients and conditions for life exist on this planet.

  2. Benjamin Weiss:

    The most surprising thing that's come out of these images is the potential opportunity to catch the time when Jezero Crater transitioned from an Earth-like habitable environment, to this desolate landscape wasteland we see now, these boulder beds may be records of this transition, and we haven't seen this in other places on Mars.

  3. Stephen Kane:

    Information about a planet's interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it, though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around our galaxy's oldest stars.

  4. David Bennett:

    Planet formation theory is pretty important even if you are only interested in habitable planets because its not just enough to have a planet in the habitable zone, you have to have chemicals that are consistent with life and a history thats consistent with the development of life, the better we can understand planet formation, the better we are able to predict which planets might be habitable.

  5. Charles Dickens:

    If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

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