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Definition of Inhabitant
1. Noun. A person who inhabits a particular place.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Asian, Asiatic, European, Aussie, Australian, Austronesian, Kiwi, New Zealander, American, American, Alsatian, Borderer, Cottage Dweller, Cottager, Easterner, Galilaean, Galilean, Hittite, Island-dweller, Islander, Landlubber, Landman, Landsman, Latin, Liver, Marcher, Nazarene, Northerner, Numidian, Occidental, Philistine, Phrygian, Plainsman, Occupant, Occupier, Resident, Earthling, Earthman, Tellurian, Worldling, Trinidadian, Villager, Westerner
Derivative terms: Dwell, Inhabit
Definition of Inhabitant
1. n. 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.
Definition of Inhabitant
1. Noun. Someone or thing who lives in a place. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inhabitant
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhabitant
Literary usage of Inhabitant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by James Russell, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1837)
"Read the payment was by every person being a householder inhabitant, in lieu of
tithes of herbs, &c., growing in any garden occupied by him : here it is a ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"POSITIVELY THE OLDEST inhabitant BY AUGUSTA ... SEAMAN IT is something to be able
to boast that one is the oldest inhabitant of one's town or section. ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The llth section contains this further provision, "that no civil suits shall be
brought before either of the said courts against an inhabitant of the United ..."
4. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"Two miles beyond South Pass City we saw for the first THG CONCENTRATED inhabitant.
time that mysterious marvel which all Western un - traveled boys have ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"A person is said to be an "inhabitant" of ц place when he is ordinarily ...
A person may be an inhabitant of one country and a citizen or subject of another ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... son from contracting marriage whh a native or an inhabitant ^116) or from
purchasing slaves, lands, or houses, within the extent of his jurisdiction. ..."
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