say it: HAB-uh-tat
habitat is a noun meaning "the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs". It carries one recorded sense.
the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
“a marine habitat”
“he felt safe on his home grounds”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for habitat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.