Other forms: inhabited, inhabits, inhabiting
To inhabit is the formal word for living in a place. Inhabit the island, inhabited since, thinly inhabited.
It takes a direct object with no preposition — inhabit the valley, not inhabit in it — and it is used of populations rather than individuals: the tribes that inhabit the region. In acting, to inhabit a role means to occupy it completely, which is high praise. Note inhabitant, uninhabited; and that the Latin means to dwell in, from habitare.
1verbinhabitTo live in a place.
“Polar bears inhabit the frozen regions around the Arctic.”
2verboccupyTo occupy a role completely.
“The actor inhabited the role so completely that people forgot who he really was.”
inhabit is a dwelling in.
Also accepted in games: occupy
Latin inhabitare is in plus habitare, to dwell, from habere, to have or hold. Habit, habitat and inhabitant come from the same holding.
Latin
inhabitāre
Old French
enhabiter
English, today
inhabit
From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitāre (in + habito).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA