Synonyms for habitat
ˈhæb ɪˌtæthabi·tat

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:1.7 / 45 votes

1. habitat, home groundnoun

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

   "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

   Synonyms:
   home ground

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1. • Environment

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. territory

   the place of where one dwells and holds ownership.

   home ground.

   Submitted by JP03 on November 24, 2014  

2. biome

   a place where animals and people live; an area that animals are adapted to.

   the animals' habitat was very cold and frosty and i had to wear my warm winter jacket while the animals had a thick coverage of fur.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 15, 2015  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. habitatnoun

   Synonyms:
   natural locality (of a plant or an animal)

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1. List of paraphrases for "habitat":

   habitats, 'habitat, unchs, housing, un-habitat

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1. Ragan Whitlock:

   Not only has that list of places changed a lot in the last 45 years, as the environment changes, what it means to designate critical habitat has changed, in 1978, two years after those original designations, Endangered Species Act was amended. Now, all critical habitat designations require that Wildlife Service identifies physical and biological features that are essential to the preservation of the species.

2. Cathy Spraetz:

   There are lots of tears when we see chimps released into a very large corral or habitat for the first time, just knowing here they had an opportunity that they've not had their entire life makes it all so worthwhile.

3. Zygmunt Bauman:

   All (totalitarian) versions of society-as-garden define the parts of the social habitat as human weeds. Like all weeds, they must be segregated, contained, prevented from spreading, removed and kept outside the society boundaries; if all these means prove insufficient, they must be killed.

4. Dawn Zimmerman:

   These are areas with lots of wildlife biodiversity, a growing human population encroaching on the natural habitat, good travel networks and a large amount of livestock, which means there is a high potential for virus spillovers between species.

5. Andrew Chin:

   The Swan River estuary is good bull shark habitat and this means people can come into close contact with them, unfortunately some encounters end badly and in this case with tragic results.