Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Residence; abode in a dwelling-place for the time being.
- noun The state of being inhabited; inhabitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy.
- noun (Law) The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
inhabitancy .
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Examples
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All this has gone to prove that the inhabitance of the valley are an indigenous people since the very earliest times and that they can claim their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, and under ILO 169.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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All this has gone to prove that the inhabitance of the valley are an indigenous people since the very earliest times and that they can claim their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, and under ILO 169.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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All this has gone to prove that the inhabitance of the valley are an indigenous people since the very earliest times and that they can claim their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, and under ILO 169.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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In many of these countries, the local inhabitance don't want us there.
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All this has gone to prove that the inhabitance of the valley are an indigenous people since the very earliest times and that they can claim their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, and under ILO 169.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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All this has gone to prove that the inhabitance of the valley are an indigenous people since the very earliest times and that they can claim their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, and under ILO 169.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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All this has gone to prove that the inhabitance of the valley are an indigenous people since the very earliest times and that they can claim their rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, and under ILO 169.
Jeff Biggers: India's Coal Rush and Form of Mountaintop Removal: Interview with Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam Jeff Biggers 2010
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Bhim Singh declared that the Panthers Party shall hold NGOs meeting at UN Headquarters this year to mobilize international opinion to stop genocide of the inhabitance of Gilgit.
Bhim Singh urged Government of India for its intervention in Gilgit-Baltistan region of J & K 2009
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Instead of taking the attitude of con-inhabitance with this predominant population, Zionism said "hey let's take this land as our own".
Edwards: I'll Travel The World To Fix U.S.'s Global Image 2009
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A diversity of megaopolises megaopoli? mixed with areas of low-human inhabitance is more my style.
Hoverbikes 2009
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