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Habitants provided the local church and rectory, which were commonly used as meeting places and as community halls, and emergency food stores were often kept in the church's attic. [10] Habitants also viewed Sunday Mass as not only a time for worship but also a time for communal gathering and socializing. [citation needed]
Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow. [4] [5] It is similar in meaning to a biotope; an area of uniform environmental conditions associated with a particular community of plants and animals. [6]
A demonym (/ ˈ d ɛ m ə n ɪ m /; from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, tribe' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') or gentilic (from Latin gentilis 'of a clan, or gens') [1] is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. [2]
The lord of the manor rented most of the land to tenants, known as censitaires or habitants, who cleared the land, built houses and other buildings, and farmed the land.A smaller portion of the land was kept as a demesne (land owned by the manorial lord and farmed by his family or by hired labour) which was economically significant in the early days of settlement, though less thereafter.
Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County (Habitat NYC and Westchester) was founded in 1984 as an independent affiliate, serving families across the five boroughs through home construction and preservation, beginning with their first build on the Lower East Side, during the first Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. [14]
More broadly, the term cohabitation can mean any number of people living together. To "cohabit", in a broad sense, means to "exist together". [1] The origin of the term comes from the mid 16th century, being used as early as 1530. [1] It's from the Latin cohabitare, from co- 'together' + habitare 'dwell'.
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Habitat fragmentation is the landscape level of the phenomenon, and patch level process. ... Thus meaning, it covers; the patch areas, edge effects, and patch shape ...