inhabitant

[ in-hab-i-tuhnt ]

noun

1. a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.

   Synonyms: dweller, denizen

inhabitant

/ ɪnˈhæbɪtənt /

noun

1. a person or animal that is a permanent resident of a particular place or region

Derived Forms

• inˈhabitancy, noun

Other Words From

• prein·habit·ant noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of inhabitant¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin inhabitant- (stem of inhabitāns ) dwelling in. See inhabit, -ant

Example Sentences

We often forget our connections with our fellow planetary inhabitants, but our lives may depend on them.

From Nautilus

As our planet plows through space, its orbit inevitably crosses the orbits of other inhabitants of the solar system.

From Singularity Hub 

A publicly owned utility is what we need for San Diego’s working-class families and for all living inhabitants of our planet.

From Voice of San Diego

So, the whole idea is much more of being a thriving city, a city that is taking well care of its inhabitants but also taking well care of its environment and taking well care of the rest of the world.

From Freakonomics

If a brain is our Earth, then we, as inhabitants, are individual brain cells.

From Singularity Hub 

It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.

From The Daily Beast

Lei Huazhen is a handsome woman and unusually tall for an inhabitant of Sichuan.

From The Daily Beast

Bartleby might well be the street's only constant inhabitant.

From The Daily Beast

And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

From Project Gutenberg

Ice of such thickness on Lake Luna at this early date, however, surprised even that apocryphal person, the oldest inhabitant.

From Project Gutenberg

No one to-day questions that man was an inhabitant of Europe during the Glacial Age.

From Project Gutenberg

No creature of the Greek imagination would have been a suitable inhabitant for it except Prometheus alone.

From Project Gutenberg

I like to think that this rare wayward and terrible creature of emotion was once an inhabitant of these walls.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• citizen
• colonist
• dweller
• inmate
• occupant
• settler