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inhabitant

[ in-hab-i-tuhnt ]

noun

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

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inhabitant

/ ɪˈæɪəԳ /

noun

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

  • ˈ󲹲ٲԳ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • i·󲹲i·Գ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of inhabitant1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin inhabitant- (stem of Գ󲹲Բ ) dwelling in. See inhabit, -ant
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Others have been told they should drop land acknowledgments — proclamations paying tribute to the Indigenous peoples who were this region’s first human inhabitants.

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The elephant program has been criticized by animal rights advocates for decades because of its small enclosure size and history of deaths and health challenges among its inhabitants.

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Its inhabitants are those of “there will always be an England” England: stern vicars, timid curates, lords and earls, penniless titled wastrels living on allowances from their uncles, imperious aunts, upper-crust twits.

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Their instalment marks the first time the island's 11,000 inhabitants have had access to electronic banking.

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When a mentally disturbed neighbor sets herself on fire and a slumlord tries to extort money from them, the family gets tangled in the corruption that keeps a stranglehold on the slum’s inhabitants.

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