habitation

asuminen

kasvuympäristö, kasvupaikka, elinpiiri

asunto puhekieltä The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
1651, (w), w:Leviathan (book)|Leviathan, Part 1, Chapter 24,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm

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.

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 (..)

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.

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

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.

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

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.

How gay the Habitations that adorn

This fertile Valley! Not a House but seems

To give assurance of content within;

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