Hi I'm French.. In English what is the difference between "habitat" and "habitation"?

Answer 1

Habitat is a dwelling. Habitation is the act of occupying a habitat.

That habitat is not fit for human habitation.

The habitat of that animal is a jungle.
That jungle is not fit for habitation.

Answer 2

Well both of them are nouns with the same root word, but they do differ.

Habitat is the natural conditions and environment like forests, jungles or deserts in which a living matter lives.

On the other hand, habitation is the occupancy of a place or the place in which a living matter lives such as on a tree in a forest or a foxhole in a desert or a nest in a mangrove.

In other words, a habitation is just a place in a habitat.

Answer 3

Habitat refers to the type of area something lives in. A bears habitat is in the forrest. A habitation is a specific place where something lives. The bears habitation is that hole in the ground. Bon chance, mes ami!

Answer 4

well, habitat means the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives in, but habitation is the native home that an animal or plant lives in; the house that someone lives in; dwelling or permanent living place.
they just have a slight difference, not much

Answer 5

Habitat is the place or area where you will find certain things like tigers habitat is the jungle while habitation is stuff like the houses that humans live in.or something like that.

Answer 6

Habitat: is the ideal environment in which to live.
Habitation: is "where" you live.

Answer 7

habitat is the natural place -- the environment where the organism lives.

habitation is the act of living in such a space (the habitat or abode)

In the strict, NORMAL definition. Habitatio is the Latin root word.

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Habitation \Hab`i*ta"tion\ (h[a^]b"[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [F.
habitation, L. habitatio.]
1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or
of being inhabited; occupancy. --Denham.
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2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
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The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just.
--Prov. iii.
33.
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-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

habitation
n 1: the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide
homes for the homeless" [syn: {dwelling}, {home}, {domicile},
{abode}, {dwelling house}]
3: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place
(said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation
and inhabitation and demise of the colony" [syn: {inhabitancy},
{inhabitation}]

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Habitat \Hab"i*tat\ (h[a^]b"[i^]*t[a^]t), n. [L., it dwells, fr.
habitare. See {Habit}, v. t.]
1. (Biol.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal
or plant.
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2. Place where anything is commonly found.
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This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. --Earle.
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-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

habitat
n : the type of environment in which an organism or group
normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt
safe on his home grounds" [syn: {home ground}]

-- From WordNet (r) 2.0

Answer 8

habitat usually refers to an animal's living environment, whereas habitation is a specific dwelling or home

Answer 9

Habitat is an actual thing (noun) that means an environment in which something lives.
Habitation is a verb that means that something is living in a certain place

Answer 10

Habitat is the area.... that something lives in. For instance a field that a mouse lives in is it's habitat.

Habitation means that something living there.