inhabitant
- noun
- /ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/
- And yet Bentonville, with its 35,000 inhabitants, has a significance all its own:
- original inhabitants
- local inhabitants
- rural inhabitants
We got a big, beautiful round Earth with billions of inhabitants.
- We got a big, beautiful round Earth with billions of inhabitants.
- She goes on and says this is Umhalat, a city whose inhabitants simply care for one another.
- Our renaissance in Palestine will come through the country's regeneration, that is, the Renaissance of its Arab inhabitants.
- And to see, you know, the former, the inhabitants of a former colony raise a colonial flag was very jarring to woke eyes, right of our time.
- We are as body, as mind, as inhabitant of earth.
- They beam the entire inhabitant population of the planet on the Starship Enterprise.
- And there are these people there called the old race, and there is some of the original inhabitants of the the land.
Examples
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The survival of the inhabitants depends on the proper elimination of human waste and water purification.
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The ancient ruins reveal much about the daily lives of the inhabitants who once thrived there.
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We know very little about it except that it was... the original inhabitant of this planet.
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This planet Earth, and all its inhabitants, shall be my playground.
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To the frightened inhabitants, the end of the world had come.
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When our ancestors first lay claim to this island, they found they were not its sole inhabitants.
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Otherwise, violent disagreements might arise between and among local inhabitants, states, or nations.
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As recently as 1940, Lima-Callao had 645,172 inhabitants as compared to approximately six million in 1984.
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The artifacts show how the town's native inhabitants both resisted and incorporated European influences, says Quilter.
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Over the centuries, Ladino landowners and peasants pushed the original Indian inhabitants to less productive areas.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
A person who lives in a house or uses a seat
A person or animal who lives in a certain place
A person, animal, or plant that lives in a place
Living in a place as your home
A person who lives in a house or apartment
A person or animal that lives in a place
A person or animal that lives in a place
A person who lives in a place for a long time
Antonyms
Compounds
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inhabitant comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and habitare 'to live', the same root as habitat. So an inhabitant is a person or animal that 'lives in' a particular place.