DWELLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dweller mean? 

• DWELLER (noun)
  The noun DWELLER has 1 sense:

1. a person who inhabits a particular place

  Familiarity information: DWELLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DWELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who inhabits a particular place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant

Hypernyms ("dweller" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dweller"):

Latin (an inhabitant of ancient Latium)

westerner (an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S.)

villager (one who has lived in a village most of their life)

Trinidadian (inhabitant or native of Trinidad)

earthling; earthman; tellurian; worldling (an inhabitant of the earth)

occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

plainsman (an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America))

Phrygian (a native or inhabitant of Phrygia)

Philistine (a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC)

Occidental (a native inhabitant of the Occident)

Numidian (an inhabitant of ancient Numidia)

Northerner (an inhabitant of the North)

Nazarene (an inhabitant of Nazareth)

marcher (an inhabitant of a border district)

liver (someone who lives in a place)

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

landlubber; landman; landsman (a person who lives and works on land)

island-dweller; islander (an inhabitant of an island)

Hittite (a member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC)

Galilaean; Galilean (an inhabitant of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ))

easterner (an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S.)

cottage dweller; cottager (someone who lives in a cottage)

borderer (an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England))

Alsatian (a native or inhabitant of Alsace)

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)

Kiwi; New Zealander (a native or inhabitant of New Zealand)

Austronesian (a native or inhabitant of Austronesia)

Aussie; Australian (a native or inhabitant of Australia)

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Derivation:

dwell (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

 Context examples 

My wife was on a visit to her mother’s, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An international team of researchers analyzed nine existing studies involving eight million city-dwellers around the world.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

His had softened during the many generations since the day his last wild ancestor was tamed by a cave-dweller or river man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added:—"Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As the sun was to the outside dweller, this wall was to him the sun of his world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had slept late, and I stepped outside with sudden energy, bent upon making up lost time as befitted a dweller on Endeavour Island.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Vague shapes swirled and swam amid the dark cloud-bank, each a menace and a warning of something coming, the advent of some unspeakable dweller upon the threshold, whose very shadow would blast my soul.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She learned to pack a horse as well as a man,—a task to break the heart and the pride of any city-dweller, and she knew how to throw the hitch best suited for any particular kind of pack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But those fierce fights, when in the dawn of the ages the cave-dwellers held their own against the tiger folk, or the elephants first found that they had a master, those were the real conquests—the victories that count.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His father (he had already come to recognise his father as the one other dweller in the world, a creature like his mother, who slept near the light and was a bringer of meat)—his father had a way of walking right into the white far wall and disappearing.

(White Fang, by Jack London)