Inhabitant

//ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or thing who lives in a place.

    "I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars."

  2. 2
    a person who inhabits a particular place wordnet
  3. 3
    A possible value for a type.

    "One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to its cardinality, a count of the inhabitants of that type."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resident not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms
dwellerdenizendwellerhabitanttenantresident

Example

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"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."

Etymology

From Middle English inhabitantes (n. plural) and inhabitaunt (adj.), from Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, present participle of inhabitō (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to seize, take, hold, have”). By surface analysis, inhabit + -ant.

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