Inhabitant
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English
Noun
Inhabitant (plural Inhabitants)Thesaurus
aborigine, addressee, artist-in-residence, autochthon, citizen, citizenry, commonwealth, community, constituency, cultural community, denizen, dweller, dwellers, folk, general public, habitancy, habitant, house detective, incumbent, indigene, inhabitants, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, linguistic community, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, nation, native, occupant, occupier, people, people at large, populace, population, public, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, society, sojourner, speech community, tenant, whole people
Etymology
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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Latin
Verb
inhabitant
- third-person plural present active indicative of inhabitō
