inhabitant

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=hab=it=ant

CIDE DICTIONARY

inhabitant, n. [L. inhabitans, -antis, p. pr. of inhabitare.].

•  One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

  "In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people."  [1913 Webster]
•  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

inhabitant

aborigine, addressee, artist-in-residence, autochthon, citizen, citizenry, commonwealth, community, constituency, cultural community, denizen, dweller, dwellers, folk, general public, habitancy, habitant, house detective, incumbent, indigene, inhabitants, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, linguistic community, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, nation, native, occupant, occupier, people, people at large, populace, population, public, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, society, sojourner, speech community, tenant, whole people

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inhabitant

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.