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View synonyms for inhabitant

inhabitant

[ in-hab-i-tuhnt ]

noun

  1. a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.

    Synonyms: dweller, denizen



inhabitant

/ ɪnˈhæbɪtənt /

noun

  1. a person or animal that is a permanent resident of a particular place or region


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Derived Forms

  • inˈhabitancy, noun

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Other Words From

  • prein·habit·ant noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of inhabitant1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin inhabitant- (stem of inhabitāns ) dwelling in. See inhabit, -ant

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Example Sentences

It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.

Lei Huazhen is a handsome woman and unusually tall for an inhabitant of Sichuan.

Bartleby might well be the street's only constant inhabitant.

And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Ice of such thickness on Lake Luna at this early date, however, surprised even that apocryphal person, the oldest inhabitant.

No one to-day questions that man was an inhabitant of Europe during the Glacial Age.

No creature of the Greek imagination would have been a suitable inhabitant for it except Prometheus alone.

I like to think that this rare wayward and terrible creature of emotion was once an inhabitant of these walls.

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