INDWELLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indweller mean? 

• INDWELLER (noun)
  The noun INDWELLER has 2 senses:

1. activation by an inner spirit or force or principle

2. a person who inhabits a particular place

  Familiarity information: INDWELLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDWELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Activation by an inner spirit or force or principle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the Holy Spirit is the indweller of the church and its members

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

activation (stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical)

Derivation:

indwell (to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who inhabits a particular place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant

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

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

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

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)