dweller
noun/ˈdwelə(r)/
/ˈdwelər/
- (especially in compounds) a person or an animal that lives in the particular place that is mentioned
- Apartment dwellers are still primarily couples and singles.
Extra Examples- the poor slum dwellers of the capital city
- 85 per cent of city dwellers breathe heavily polluted air.
- Almost all Asian hornbills are forest dwellers.
- Historically, government policy has favoured urban dwellers.
- The disease spread quickly among the poor slum dwellers of the city.
- the earliest cave dwellers
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- city
- town
- urban
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