inhabitantnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/us/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/B2 a person or animal that lives in a particular place:
a city of five million inhabitants
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- The Aborigines are the native inhabitants of Australia.
- The city of Ely has about 10,000 inhabitants.
- Many of the immigrants have intermarried with the island's original inhabitants.
- It was so exciting to see that our birdbox has some new inhabitants.
- The first inhabitant of the farm was my great-grandfather, who built the house.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People who live or settle somewhere
- asylum seeker
- brain drain
- bum
- city slicker
- cohabitant
- cottager
- exodus
- foreign-returned
- frontiersman
- guest worker
- illegal alien
- lodger
- outflow
- overspill
- resident
- roomer
- settler
- son
- squatter
- welcome wagon
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