Inhabitant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inhabitant \In*hab"it*ant\, n. [L. inhabitans, -antis, p. pr. of
     inhabitare.]
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     1. 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.


        "Frail inhabitants of earth." --Cowper.
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              In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants
              which were very fair and fat people.  --Abp. Abbot.
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     2. (Law) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or
        parish; a permanent resident.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inhabitant
       n : a person who inhabits a particular place [syn: {dweller}, {denizen},
            {indweller}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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