Other forms: habitations
Habitation is the living in a place, or a dwelling itself. Unfit for human habitation.
The phrase unfit for human habitation is a legal finding rather than an opinion. Habitation as a word for a house is old-fashioned and survives in formal writing.
1nounhabitationThe living in a place, or a dwelling itself.
“The house was declared unfit for habitation and sold anyway.”
habitation is a dwelling.
Latin habitatio comes from habitare, to dwell, from habere, to have.
Latin
habitātiōnem
Old French
habitacion
Middle English
habitacioun
English, today
habitation
Built from
From Middle English habitacioun, from Old French habitacion, abitacion (“act of dwelling”), from Latin habitātiōnem, accusative of Latin habitātiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA