Experts generally recommend seven to nine hours a night for healthy adults. Sleep scientists say new guidelines are needed to take into account an abundance of recent research in the field and to reflect that Americans are on average sleeping less than they did in the past.
Synonyms: inhabitation, domicile, habitation, home, dwelling, inhabitancy, abode, dwelling house. habitation. Abode, dwelling, and habitation are used with little difference of meaning to denote the place where one habitually lives; abode and habitation belong to the poetic or elevated style. Even dwelling is not used in familiar speech; a person says my house , my home , or more formally my residence ..
1 Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from either of two places in Northumberland or from one in West Yorkshire, all of which are so named from Old English fenn âmarshâ, âfenâ + wÄ«c âoutlying dairy farmâ. 2  There is also a place in Ayrshire, Scotland, which has the same name and origin.ave Name. Last name origins & meanings: 1  Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from either of two places in Northumberland or from one in West Yorkshire, all of which are so named from Old English fenn âmarshâ, âfenâ + wÄ«c âoutlying dairy farmâ.