habited

¹

[ hab-i-tid ]

adjective

1. dressed or clothed, especially in a habit:

   habited nuns.

habited

²

[ hab-i-tid ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. inhabited.

habited

/ ˈhæbɪtɪd /

adjective

1. dressed in a habit
2. clothed

Word History and Origins

Origin of habited¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; habit ¹ + -ed ³

Origin of habited²

habit ² + -ed ²

Example Sentences

“It comes up every time there’s an eruption and there’s lava heading towards habited areas or highways. Some people say ‘Build a wall’ or ‘Board up’ and other people say, ‘No don’t!,’” said Scott Rowland, a geologist at the University of Hawaii.

From Washington Times

“It comes up every time there’s an eruption and there’s lava heading towards habited areas or highways. Some people say ‘Build a wall’ or ‘Board up’ and other people say, ‘No don’t!,’” said Scott Rowland, a geologist at the University of Hawaii.

From Seattle Times

NARSAQ, Greenland — This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea.

From New York Times

Edgar opts to wear the old-school habit and veil, and in the South Bronx in the 1990s, a habited nun is an appropriate image, she thinks.

From New York Times

He said the conquest of Mexico “truly made the world globalized, as it connected the transatlantic to transpacific world and all the habited continents. That kicked off what we now call globalization.”

From Seattle Times