Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inhabitant; a resident of some continuance in a place.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An inhabitant; a resident.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who inhabits a particular place

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Examples

  • 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.

    Chapter XXV 2010

  • Accept that no matter how brilliant you know you are, some mouth-breathing basement-dweller is going to think your writing is terrible.

    Chris Evans - Author Interview Jessica Strider 2008

  • This piano playing basement dweller is a little irritating but he makes a good point.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The independence of the rural dweller is a bit exaggerated in this day and age.

    How Should We Be Thinking About Urbanization? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • It is not easy to take a dweller from a town and turn him on the land of any country.

    Empire Development 1923

  • 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.

    Chapter XXV 1910

  • 'As West warms, some fear for tiny mountain dweller.' tinyurl. com/cjms5r #

    Tweets I have known 2009

  • He has a longer pedigree than many a titled dweller in Belgravia.

    Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

  • 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.

    THE SCAB 2010

  • 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.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

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