Definitions

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  • adjective Pertaining to habitation or an inhabited region.
  • adjective of a name Deriving from the name of a place where a presumed ancestor once lived.

Etymologies

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habitation +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Although he is currently back in Sydney for about a week, finalising things up there, it feels very much like our co-habitational life together has officially begun. *cuts ceremonial ribbon with oversize scissors* Hurrah!

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Although he is currently back in Sydney for about a week, finalising things up there, it feels very much like our co-habitational life together has officially begun. *cuts ceremonial ribbon with oversize scissors* Hurrah!

    it's turkey lurkey time 2007

  • It probably is a Polish habitational name related to Ruthenia.

    languagehat.com: RUSYN/RUTHENIAN. 2005

  • "We have irrefutable evidence that our erstwhile colleagues entered into a pact with ZANU-PF for a co-habitational political project," the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change told diplomats late Tuesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Commission chair Joyce Piliso-Seroke said it was a pity the court did not extend the judgment to co-habitational and same-sex relationships.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Hundreds of Iron Age megalithic burial sites of different types and habitational deposits of the contemporary period have been discovered by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Sengalur village in neighbouring Pudukottai District of Tamil Nadu.

    The Hindu - Home 2010

  • The nice, and heavily tattooed and pierced, co-habitational partner of a non-specific gender, cleans his/her/its Che Guevara T-shirt.

    Home 2010

  • The co-habitational partner snarls at the camera: "Buy Detergent B!"

    Home 2010

  • Fireman's Fund is really his "go to" market for larger historic sites, house museums, theaters, historic hotels and better-protected habitational business.

    Insurance Journal 2010

  • The excavations also yielded habitational objects like potteries of different shapes and sizes including bi-coloured (red and black) pots besides iron objects at

    The Hindu - Home 2010

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