the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"
If a place or region is inhabited by a group of people or a species of animal, those people or animals live there. The valley is inhabited by the Dani tribe. the people who inhabit these islands. a land primarily inhabited by nomads. if animals or people inhabit an area or place, they live there (enhabiter, from habitare; HABITATION)
make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"