dweller
/ˈdwɛlə/US/ˈdwɛlɚ/
dweller noun: an inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
Noun
dweller (plural dwellers)
- An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
- The new couple are apartment dwellers.
- [T]he craggineſſe and ſteepineſſe of places up and dovvn is a great advantage to the dvvellers, and makes them inacceſſible, for they ſerve as Fortreſſes erected by Nature her ſelfe, to protect them from all incurſions: […]1642, James Howell, “Section X”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, pages 132–133
- Synonyms:
- inhabitant, resident, denizen
dweller meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada
dweller in Tamil
- ஒரு இடத்தில் வசிப்பவர், குடியிருப்பவர், உறைபவர், வாசி
dweller in Urdu
- باشندہ, باسی, مکین
dweller in Telugu
- dweller, inhabitant, resident
- వాసి vāsi
- a dweller
- నివాసి nivāsi
dweller in Kannada
- ನಿವಾಸಿ
Examples of dweller in a sentence
- Look at the urban dweller pulling up in his fancy German car.
- City dwellers have a higher cancer rate than do countrymen. Apparently, they drink more than is good for 'em.
- Generally, Russian-language social media tends to target the middle class and urban dwellers.
Synonyms of dweller
Forms of dweller
| plural | dwellers |
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Origin of dweller
From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.
Words formed from dweller
- basement-dweller
- basement dweller
- bottom dweller
- bydweller
- cave dweller
- cellar dweller
- city dweller
- citydweller
- country dweller
- fringe dweller
- home-dweller
- indweller
- mirror dweller
- night dweller
- outdweller
- shackdweller
- slum dweller
- slumdweller
- town dweller
- town-dweller
- towndweller
- urban dweller
- valley dweller
Phrases with dweller
Words that rhyme with dweller
- teller
- cellar
- smeller
- speller
- impeller
- stellar
- seller
- acerebellar
- anticerebellar
- cerebellar
- cerebrocerebellar
- corticocerebellar
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- corticothalamocerebellar
- cuneocerebellar
- extracerebellar
- frontocerebellar
- hemicerebellar
- hypothalamocerebellar
- intracerebellar
- medicerebellar
- neocerebellar
- noncerebellar
- olivocerebellar
- olivopontocerebellar
- palaeocerebellar
- pancerebellar
- paracerebellar
- parietocerebellar
- pontocerebellar
- precerebellar
- rappeller
- repeller
- reticulocerebellar
- retrocerebellar
- skeller
- spinocerebellar
- steller
- supracerebellar
- tectocerebellar
- transcerebellar
- trigeminocerebellar
- vestibulocerebellar
- yeller
Questions about dweller
- What does dweller mean?
- Dweller means an inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
- What is dweller in Tamil?
- Dweller in Tamil is ஒரு இடத்தில் வசிப்பவர், குடியிருப்பவர், உறைபவர். See Dweller meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dweller?
- Dweller is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dweller?
- Dweller is pronounced /ˈdwɛlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dweller?
- The plural of dweller is dwellers.
Words near dweller in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dweller (page history and authors); dweller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dweller (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నివాసి (Telugu) (page history and authors); dweller (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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