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Word entry · 10 letters

inhabitant

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"Resident"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/Part of speech nounSorted aabhiinnttStarts with IEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who inhabits a particular place

Word origin

From Middle English inhabitantes (n. plural) and inhabitaunt (adj.), from Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, present participle of inhabitō (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to seize, take, hold, have”). By surface analysis, inhabit + -ant.

Used in a sentence

  • I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
  • It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
  • One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to its cardinality, a count of the inhabitants of that type.

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