Inhabitant Definition

ĭn-hăbĭ-tənt
inhabitants
noun
inhabitants
A person or animal that inhabits some specified region, dwelling, etc.; permanent resident.
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Someone or thing who lives in a place.

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Noun

Singular:
inhabitant
Plural:
inhabitants

Origin of Inhabitant

  • Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitans, present participle of inhabito (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“seize, take, hold, have”).

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Inhabitant Sentence Examples

  • It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

  • The tree swift, or scaly lizard, is also an inhabitant of western and south-western Texas.

  • They inhabit chiefly the northern seas, but many abyssal forms occur between the tropics and in the southern parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. They are represented in British waters by eight genera, and about twenty species, only one of which, the burbot (Lola vulgaris), is an inhabitant of fresh waters.

  • It is an inhabitant of the rivers and streams of Europe north of the Alps, but it is most abundant in those of France and Germany.

  • It is essentially an inhabitant of tidal waters and estuaries, and often goes out to sea; hence its wide distribution, from the whole coast of Bengal to southern China, to the northern coasts of Australia and even to the Fiji islands.

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