Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Inhabitant
//ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt//
Synonyms for "inhabitant" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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38 entriesShowing 16 of 38 words.
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7 entriesderived
3 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
16 entriesTranslations
167 translations across 84 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- banor noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κάτοικος noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- οἰκήτωρ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Arabic
4 entries- أَهْل noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- ساكن noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- سَاكِن noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- سَاكِنَة noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Aragonese
2 entries- habitant noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- habitanta noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Armenian
1 entries- բնակիչ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- sakin noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- əhl noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Basque
2 entries- bizilagun noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- biztanle noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Belarusian
4 entries- жы́цель noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жы́целька noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жыха́р noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жыха́рка noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Bengali
1 entries- বাসিন্দা noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Bulgarian
4 entries- жи́тел noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жи́телка noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- обита́тел noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- обита́телка noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Catalan
1 entries- habitant noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Cebuano
1 entries- lumulupyo noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎡᎯ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 居住者 noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- 居民 noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Chukchi
1 entries- нымытваԓьын noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Church Slavic
2 entries- жителинъ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жител҄ь noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Czech
2 entries- obyvatel noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- obyvatelka noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Danish
1 entries- indbygger noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Dutch
4 entries- bewoner noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- bewoonster noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- inwoner noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- inwoonster noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Esperanto
4 entries- enloĝantino noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- enloĝanto noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- loĝantino noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- loĝanto noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Estonian
1 entries- asukas noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Faroese
1 entries- íbúgvi noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Finnish
1 entries- asukas noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
French
4 entries- habitant noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- habitante noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- résident noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- résidente noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Galician
1 entries- habitante noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Georgian
3 entries- მაცხოვრებელი noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- მკვიდრი noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- მცხოვრები noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
German
4 entries- Bewohner noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- Bewohnerin noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- Einwohner noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- Einwohnerin noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Greek
1 entries- κάτοικος noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Hebrew
2 entries- תּוֹשֶׁבֶת \ תושבת noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- תושב \ תּוֹשָׁב noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Hindi
3 entries- निवासी noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- रहनेवाला noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- वासी noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Hungarian
2 entries- lakos noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- lakó noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Icelandic
1 entries- íbúi noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Ido
1 entries- habitanto noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Indonesian
2 entries- pemukim noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- penduduk noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Ingrian
1 entries- asunikka noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Irish
2 entries- áitreabhach noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- áitreabhthóir noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Italian
1 entries- abitante noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Japanese
2 entries- 住民 noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- 居住者 noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Kazakh
2 entries- мекендеуші noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- тұрғын noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Khmer
1 entries- អ្នកស្រុក noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũikari noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Korean
2 entries- 거주자 noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- 주민 noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тургун noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Latin
4 entries- cultor noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- cultrīx noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- habitātor noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- habitātrīx noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Latvian
1 entries- iedzīvotājs noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gyventojas noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Livonian
1 entries- jelānikā noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Awunner noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- Awunnerin noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Macedonian
2 entries- жител noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жителка noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Malay
1 entries- penghuni noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Middle English
1 entries- dweller noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Mongolian
1 entries- суугч noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Māori
1 entries- kainoho noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- akincî noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- rûniştvan noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- şênî noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- innbygger noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- ibuar noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- innbyggjar noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Occitan
2 entries- abitant noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- abitanta noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Old English
1 entries- būend noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Pennsylvania German
1 entries- Eiwuhner noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Persian
3 entries- اهل noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- ساکن noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- مقیم noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bewona noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Polish
2 entries- mieszkaniec noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- mieszkanka noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Portuguese
1 entries- habitante noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਬਾਸ਼ਿੰਦਾ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- ਵਸਨੀਕ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Romanian
2 entries- locuitoare noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- locuitor noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Russian
4 entries- жи́тель noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жи́тельница noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- обита́тель noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- обита́тельница noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Scots
1 entries- indwaller noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- stanòvnica noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- stanòvnīk noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- žiteljka noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- žítelj noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Slovak
2 entries- obyvateľ noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- obyvateľka noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Slovene
2 entries- prebivalec noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- prebivalka noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Spanish
4 entries- habitante noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- lugareña noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- lugareño noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- residente noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Swahili
1 entries- mwenyeji noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Swedish
2 entries- inbyggare noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- invånare noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Tajik
2 entries- аҳл noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- сокин noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Telugu
1 entries- నివాసి noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Thai
2 entries- พลเมือง noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- พสกนิกร noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Tofa
1 entries- черлеғші noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Turkish
2 entries- oturan noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- sakin noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýaşaýjysy noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Ukrainian
4 entries- жи́тель noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- жи́телька noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- ме́шканець noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- ме́шканка noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Uzbek
2 entries- turuvchi noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- yashovchi noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cư dân noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Welsh
2 entries- preswylydd noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
- trigiannydd noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
Yoruba
1 entries- olùgbé noun (someone or thing who lives in a place)
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