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Definitions of inhabitant
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A resident.
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One who resides in a place; one legally treated as such.
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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.
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One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.
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One who dwells or resides in a place.
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a person who inhabits a particular place
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One who, or that which, occupies; a permanent resident.
Antonyms for inhabitant
out-migrant, drifter, drop in, gypsy, wayfarer, alien, expatriate, emigrant, settler, gadabout, defector, visitant, Incomer, exile, outlander, Escaper, Maunderer, stranger, rambler, frequenter, tourist, outsider, refugee, stroller, visitor, transient, guest, caller, foreigner, wanderer, in-migrant, nonresident, roamer, evacuee.
Quotes of inhabitant
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
– Hannah More -
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant to ruin runs.
– Edward Young
Usage examples for inhabitant
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“ The oldest inhabitant remembered nothing like it. ”
– Peggy in Her Blue Frock by Eliza Orne White -
“ It has exercised the power in part, by declaring some disqualifications, to wit, those of not being twenty- five years of age, of not having been a citizen seven years, and of not being an inhabitant of the State at the time of election. ”
– Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson -
“ God prosper you; you are perhaps a traveller, and not an inhabitant of this city." ”
– Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes by Mir Amman of Dihli -
“ The inhabitant never says: 'I am sick! ”
– My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett -
“ 1. Every inhabitant is required to contribute to its support. ”
– Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions by George S. Boutwell -
“ Such a rain had never been known to fall- not in the memory of the oldest moss- back in the village- if any such ancient inhabitant existed. ”
– Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero by F. Hopkinson Smith -
“ By that time it pretty well numbered the population of the village, from the oldest inhabitant to the youngest that could run. ”
– Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories by Juliana Horatio Ewing -
“ We now begin to divine the Unknown more exactly; and our presages take form, till at once it becomes clear, that he was an inhabitant of a higher world. ”
– Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg -
“ " I have never heard of any King so named," returned the inhabitant of the city. ”
– Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Various -
“ Several insects, among which may be mentioned a large nocturnal bug, with red wings and shiny black body, also seek the same shelter; another foreign inhabitant is a night- roaming cincindela, with dark green wing- cases and pale red legs, which remind one of oriental jewels. ”
– The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon -
“ To make amends, resumed Barbicane, an inhabitant of the visible face is singularly favoured by Nature to the detriment on the invisible face. ”
– The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne -
“ And the same with each inhabitant of that island whom I had seen. ”
– The Man From the Clouds by J. Storer Clouston -
“ No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty- five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. ”
– Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur W. Dunn -
“ Not since the days when, as a young girl, she had roamed the mountains, as much a part of the forest and fields as any wild inhabitant had she so scanned the face of the valley which was her world. ”
– Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield -
“ He knew every inhabitant of the parish, and as it were checked them off mentally. ”
– Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies -
“ As an Inhabitant of Massachusetts Bay, I should think my self ungrateful, not to esteem Arthur Lee most highly, for his voluntary Services to that State, in Times of her greatest Necessity, to the Injury of his private Interest, and at the Risque of his Life. ”
– The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4 by Samuel Adams -
“ It is an inhabitant of the northern seas of Europe, but does not enter the Baltic, and is not known in the Mediterranean. ”
– The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeton -
“ The inhabitant of the great city, the democratic man of the multitude, is a sharply defined character. ”
– Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig -
“ Sanctity of the home does not exist; not long ago in Kalamba they entered, by forcing their way through the windows, the house of a peaceful inhabitant to whom their chief owed money and favors. ”
РThe Social Cancer A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by Jos̩ Rizal -
“ When James Purseley, Colorado's earliest white inhabitant first found gold in 1805, at the foot of Lincoln Mountain, it did not assume the importance of a discovery. ”
– Colorado--The Bright Romance of American History by F. C. Grable