habitat

Definition of Habitat in English :

1. habitat, home ground

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs

Example Sentences:
'a marine habitat'
'he felt safe on his home grounds'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Habitat

noun

1.

the environment in which an animal or plant normally lives or grows

2.

the place in which a person, group, class, etc, is normally found

noun

1.

the region where a plant or animal naturally grows or lives; native environment

2.

the place where a person or thing is ordinarily found

n.

1.

a. The natural environment in which a species or group of species lives: good coyote habitat; managing wildlife habitat.

b. A particular kind of natural environment: woodland and prairie habitats.

c. An artificial environment created for an animal to live in: the lion habitat at the zoo.

2. A structure that affords a controlled environment for living in extremely inhospitable locations, such as an underwater research laboratory.

3. The place where a person lives or is most likely to be found: "This park became his habitat—a bench-sitter at 17" (Neal Cassady).