Habitable Meaning

/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/
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adjSafe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.

adjOf an astronomical object: capable of supporting, or giving rise to, life.

For centuries, it was thought that Venus could not be habitable without terraforming.
All houses are supposed to be habitable.
Can we make Mars habitable and turn it green?
CEFR Practice Quiz
For a planet to be ____, it must have liquid water and a stable atmosphere.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The mission of the space telescope is to search for ____ planets that might be able to support some form of life.

From Middle English abitable, habytable, from Middle French habitable, from Latin habitābilis (“habitable”), from habitō (“dwell, live”). By surface analysis, habit (“inhabit”) + able.

"Feros is a habitable world in the Attican Beta cluster. Two-thirds of the habitable surface is covered with the ruins of a crumbling Prothean megatropolis." — 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Feros Codex entry:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
For a planet to be ____, it must have liquid water and a stable atmosphere.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The mission of the space telescope is to search for ____ planets that might be able to support some form of life.

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