commorant

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: com=mo=rant

CIDE DICTIONARY

commorant, n. [L. commorans, p. pr. of commorari to abide; com- + morari to delay.].

•  Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.  [1913 Webster]

  "All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein."  [1913 Webster]
•  Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.  [1913 Webster]

commorant, n. 

 A resident.  Bp. Hacket.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

commorant

Inhabitant

N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.