habitationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌhæb.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌhæb.ɪˈtæɪ.ʃən/
  • 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

habitation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 habitations)

1. (uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 24, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:

     And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Witness this new-made world, another Heaven
     From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view
     On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea;
     Of amplitude almost immense, with stars
     Numerous, and every star perhaps a world
     Of destined habitation […]

   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter 10, in Rob Roy. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     The few miserable hovels that showed some marks of human habitation, were now of still rarer occurrence; and at length, as we began to ascend an uninterrupted swell of moorland, they totally disappeared.

   • 1907, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 12, in The Man Who Was Thursday‎^[1]:

     Now, however, the windows in the houses began one by one to be lit up, giving a greater sense of habitation and humanity.

2. (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     And as imagination bodies forth
     The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
     Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
     A local habitation and a name.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 35:3:

     Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 6:

     Mrs Deborah, having disposed of the child according to the will of her master, now prepared to visit those habitations which were supposed to conceal its mother.

   • c. 1806–1809 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Book the Fifth. The Pastor.”, in The Excursion, being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1814, →OCLC, page 219:

     How gay the Habitations that adorn
     This fertile Valley! Not a House but seems
     To give assurance of content within;

   • 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 10, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987:

     And this is Shanty Town, my friend. ¶ Even here the children laugh in the narrow lanes that run between these tragic habitations.

3. A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.
4. (Louisiana French) A farm.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:abode