inhabited
adjective
having inhabitants; occupied; lived in or on.
well-inhabited
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a word derived from
inhabited.
Example Sentences
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Seymour, writing in 1735, says: "Great St. Ann's Lane, a pretty, handsome, well-built and well-inhabited place."
From Westminster The Fascination of London by Mrs. A. Murray Smith
On the S.W. side of the island is a wooded, picturesque valley, surrounded by lofty mountains, and containing a small but well-inhabited village.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 by Various
But upon him came noble Achilles, an unexpected evil; and then, conveying him in his ships, he sold him into well-inhabited Lemnos; but the son of Jason gave his price.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
Spear-renowned Idomeneus commanded the Cretans, those who possessed Gnossus and well-walled Gortyna and Lyctos, and Miletus, and white Lycastus and Phæstus, and Rhytium, well-inhabited cities; and others who inhabited the hundred-towned Crete.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
Beware perchance, as though ensnared in the meshes of an a turing net, thou become a prey and a spoil to hostile for quickly will they destroy thy well-inhabited city.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
