Meaning & use
inhabitance
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The state or fact of inhabiting a place; residence or occupancy.
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Records of continuous inhabitance on the land supported the family's property claim.
The island's long inhabitance by indigenous communities shaped its cultural traditions.
A note on using this word
A less common variant of 'inhabitancy,' occasionally found in legal and historical writing about residency and land claims.
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inhabitancyresidence
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