inhabitant

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who live or settle somewhere
asylum seeker
boarder
brain drain
city slicker
co-resident
Georgian
guest worker
habitant
illegal alien
illegal immigrant
lodger
Orcadian
outflow
overspill
repeople
returnee
squatter
villager
welcome wagon
year-rounder

Examples from literature

And as Bobby grew and developed, Abel, on his part, taught him to be keenly alert, patient, self-reliant and resourceful—qualities that every successful hunter and wilderness dweller must possess. 
In general the dwellers on the steppe are reputable, and they certainly impressed me favorably. 
In the Southwest the relics of the cliff dwellers are abundant. 
Now, if you'll kindly tell me where all these tent dwellers of mine are going to get fresh water from when the brooks dry up, I'll be glad. 
The lake dwellers were very sociable, and had only one common platform for all the huts, which were clustered together. 

dweller | American Dictionary

dweller
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdwel·ər/
a person who lives in a particular type of place:
city dwellers

Examples of dweller

dweller
The common themes that emerged did not discriminate hostel residents from community dwellers.
Most city dwellers did not bother to pass by - they simply abstained.
On the one hand, those systems permitted the country to "invade" the city, as country dwellers migrated to the metropolis in huge numbers.
Urban dwellers (and to a lesser extent, women) were most likely to report a perceived decline in society's living standards under democracy.
In general, urban dwellers had geographically more dispersed networks consisting of more non-kin and\\or single-stranded relationships than did the respondents in rural areas.
That is why ordinary people, especially poor city dwellers, wanted a supply of currency sufficient to go around, even if inferior coins became dominant.
These are the dwellers of the hot lands.
The words are spoken by a young city dweller, using a 'we' that both includes and addresses the beloved.
Measures to increase the real income of slum dwellers through the provision of subsidized provisions have failed to reach the intended beneficiaries.
Access to and income from cattle are still central to both the urban elite and rural dwellers.
Dependence on autotrophic production was indicated by enriched signatures of carbon isotopes in pool dwellers versus those that reside in faster-flowing sections of the stream.
This is because legumes are the cheapest nonprocessed protein sources for rural and urban dwellers.
Therefore, despite the transition difficulties, even rural dwellers embraced the reform process.
Fall rates among institution residents are much higher than among community dwellers.
By incorporating white mangroves into their subsistence regimes, coastal dwellers exposed themselves to an entire ecosystem, rich in flora and fauna.
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Collocations withdweller

dweller

These are words often used in combination with dweller.

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apartment dwellers
The majority of the 6,000 apartment dwellers in the area had to find alternative accommodation.
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