INHABITANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inhabitant mean? 

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

1. a person who inhabits a particular place

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHABITANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who inhabits a particular place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant

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

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

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

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:

inhabit (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

 Context examples 

The city’s two million inhabitants and 500,000 vehicles add to the pollution released by thermoelectric plants to produce a plume that moves into surrounding areas through wind patterns.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)

Denotes the inhabitants of Israel, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Israeli, NCI Thesaurus)

I then advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover any sign of houses or inhabitants; at least I was in so weak a condition, that I did not observe them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But as soon as I saw the inhabitants I knew what I'd struck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Denotes the inhabitants of the japanese island of Okinawa, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Okinawan, NCI Thesaurus)

You must remember, Miss Brewster, that you are a new inhabitant of this little world, and that you do not yet understand the laws which operate within it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Denotes the inhabitants of Ireland, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Irish, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of the island of Chuuk, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Chuukese, NCI Thesaurus)

He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but a European.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Denotes the inhabitants of Italy, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Italian, NCI Thesaurus)