oppidan

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: op=pi=dan

CIDE DICTIONARY

oppidan, a. [L. oppidanus, fr. oppidum town.].

 Of or pertaining to a town.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]

oppidan, n. 

•  An inhabitant of a town.  [1913 Webster]
•  A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

oppidan

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.