inhabitant
a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
Origin of inhabitant
1Other words for inhabitant
Other words from inhabitant
- pre·in·hab·it·ant, noun
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How to use inhabitant in a sentence
We often forget our connections with our fellow planetary inhabitants, but our lives may depend on them.
Why We Should Eat Crickets. And Other Bug Ideas - Facts So Romantic | Mary Ellen Hannibal | October 2, 2020 | NautilusAs our planet plows through space, its orbit inevitably crosses the orbits of other inhabitants of the solar system.
The World’s Space Agencies Are on a Quest to Deflect a (Harmless) Asteroid | Jason Dorrier | September 27, 2020 | Singularity HubA publicly owned utility is what we need for San Diego’s working-class families and for all living inhabitants of our planet.
The Franchise Agreement Ending Offers San Diego a Chance for a Fresh Start | Amanda Moser and Shauna McKenna | September 8, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoSo, the whole idea is much more of being a thriving city, a city that is taking well care of its inhabitants but also taking well care of its environment and taking well care of the rest of the world.
If a brain is our Earth, then we, as inhabitants, are individual brain cells.
Amazingly Detailed Map Reveals How the Brain Changes With Aging | Shelly Fan | June 16, 2020 | Singularity Hub
It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLei 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.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousIce of such thickness on Lake Luna at this early date, however, surprised even that apocryphal person, the oldest inhabitant.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonNo one to-day questions that man was an inhabitant of Europe during the Glacial Age.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisNo creature of the Greek imagination would have been a suitable inhabitant for it except Prometheus alone.
Overland | John William De ForestI like to think that this rare wayward and terrible creature of emotion was once an inhabitant of these walls.
A Wanderer in Paris | E. V. Lucas
British Dictionary definitions for inhabitant
/ (ɪnˈhæbɪtənt) /
a person or animal that is a permanent resident of a particular place or region
Derived forms of inhabitant
- inhabitancy or inhabitance, noun
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