habitation vs dug-out

dug-out vs habitation

habitation and dug-out both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
habitation	Yes	No	No	No
dug-out	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dug-out is a hyponym of habitation; that is, dug-out is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than habitation:

habitation: housing that someone is living in
dug-out: a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside.

Other hyponyms of habitation include cliff dwelling, condo, condominium, fixer-upper, fireside, hearth, hermitage, homestead, house, lake dwelling, pile dwelling, indian lodge, lodge, messuage, semi-detached house, vacation home, yurt, dugout, pit-house, pithouse.

habitation (noun)	dug-out (noun)
the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)	a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside.
housing that someone is living in
the native habitat or home of an animal or plant

Difference between habitation and dug-out

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