All 4 Uses of
habitat
in
The Scarlet Letter
- My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire.†
p. 52.9 *
- On the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage.†
p. 56.9
- Then, however, there was the freshness of the passing year on its exterior, and the cheerfulness, gleaming forth from the sunny windows, of a human habitation, into which death had never entered.†
p. 71.1
- With many variations, suggested by the nature of his building materials, diversity of climate, and a different mode of social life, Governor Bellingham had planned his new habitation after the residences of gentlemen of fair estate in his native land.†
p. 71.9
Definition:
the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives