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Habitable vs Residence - What's the difference?

habitable | residence |

As an adjective habitable

is safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

As a noun residence is

residence (place where one resides).

habitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
    • After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable .

    Related terms

    * habitat * inhabitable

    Antonyms

    * unhabitable * uninhabitable

    residence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
    • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
    • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Related terms

    * reside * residency * resident * residential

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