Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inhabiting; resident.
- noun A resident; one who dwells in a place, as distinguished from a transient or occasional lodger or visitor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor.
- noun (Law) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or thing who
lives in aplace .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who inhabits a particular place
Etymologies
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Examples
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Carbon footprint per inhabitant is lower in Manhattan than anywhere else in the country - a full 30% smaller than the national average.
Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010
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Carbon footprint per inhabitant is lower in Manhattan than anywhere else in the country - a full 30% smaller than the national average.
Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010
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My New Shorter Oxford does define Latino as “A Latin American inhabitant of the United States,” which would indeed exclude Cardozo — but would equally exclude all Americans of merely Spanish, as opposed to Latin American, extraction.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Cardozo as “Hispanic” or “Latino”: 2009
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The fact that the older inhabitant is always stated to have been dark is a proof that the new-comer must have been fair.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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That the people shall be destroyed with the sword: I will cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, the valley of idolatry, for the gods of the Syrians were gods of the valleys (1 Kings xx. 23), were worshipped in valleys; as the idols of Israel were worshipped on the hills; him also that holdeth the sceptre of power, some petty king or other that used to boast of the sceptre he held from Beth-Eden, the house of pleasure.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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After the inhabitant was asleep, the pod would fill with viscous stasis fluid, which would be refreshed every hour.
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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After the inhabitant was asleep, the pod would fill with viscous stasis fluid, which would be refreshed every hour.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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A government not worth thirty cents (fifteen pence) per year for each inhabitant, which is the cost in China, is not worth having.
Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877
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Again, in five departments of France in which there is less than one hecatare to each inhabitant, that is to say, in which the population is more than 250 to the square mile, the number of births to 100 marriages is 414 and a fraction.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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