habitation vs lair

habitation and lair both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
habitation	Yes	No	No	No
lair	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of habitation include aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry, den.

habitation (noun)	lair (noun)
the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)	the habitation of wild animals
housing that someone is living in
the native habitat or home of an animal or plant