Yesterday, a friend and I were talking about the incident where a chimpanzee attacked two people. During the conversation, I said, “people are always trying to habitate with animals. Some animals belong in the wild for a reason. They don’t try to habitate with us, so we shouldn’t try to habitate with them.” A few seconds went by, and I realized, I just made a word up. Habitate is not a word. Webster’s does not have an entry for habitate. I refuse to call myself dumb, I’m a genius, a wordsmith.
Habitate – where one lives or dwells
Synonym – inhabit
