inhabitant
noun/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/
/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/
Word Family
- inhabit verb
- habitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabited adjective (≠ uninhabited)
- inhabitant noun
- habitation noun
- a person or an animal that lives in a particular place
- the oldest inhabitant of the village
- It is a town of about 10 000 inhabitants.
Extra Examples- 77% of the inhabitants lived in the countryside.
- He is Brixham's oldest inhabitant.
- London has just under ten million inhabitants.
- São Paulo has nearly 23 million inhabitants.
- The island's earliest inhabitants came from India.
- It eats mice, lizards and other small inhabitants of the forest floor.
- the inhabitants of the rainforest/tundra/remote islands
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- early
- first
- …
- have
- live
- of…inhabitant
- with…inhabitant
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inhabitare ‘inhabit’.Definitions on the go
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