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noun the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
noun housing that someone is living in
noun the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
originFrom Middle English habitacioun, from Old French habitacion, abitacion (“act of dwelling”), from Latin habitātiōnem, accusative of Latin habitātiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0