Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An inhabitant; a resident of some continuance in a place.
Wiktionary
- n. An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An inhabitant; a resident.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who inhabits a particular place
Examples
“Accept that no matter how brilliant you know you are, some mouth-breathing basement-dweller is going to think your writing is terrible.”
“The independence of the rural dweller is a bit exaggerated in this day and age.”
“This piano playing basement dweller is a little irritating but he makes a good point.”
“It is not easy to take a dweller from a town and turn him on the land of any country.”
“So they planned unambiguously, reserving their lives for each other and for the compensations of country-dwelling from which the average country-dweller is barred.”
“As West warms, some fear for tiny mountain dweller.' tinyurl. com/cjms5r #”
“He has a longer pedigree than many a titled dweller in Belgravia.”
“Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power.”
“She learned to pack a horse as well as a man, - a task to break the heart and the pride of any city-dweller, and she knew how to throw the hitch best suited for any particular kind of pack.”
“But it is not alone the Ghetto-dweller, the prisoner, and the pauper that starve.”
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 118
delve, instantly, purr, fur, merciless, stalker, pray, range, trip, inscrutable, rise, dweller and 20 more...
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The Algebraist's Lexicon
Iain M. Banks made up a lot of terminology for 'The Algebraist' that may or may not have originated from actual words. Regardless, I think they are lovely words.
archimandrite, starveling, ambient fleet, rhuman, ahuman, shear-sword, slow seer, sept, dweller, arteria, informorta, mercatoria and 55 more...
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