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flatdweller

flatdweller noun: one who lives in a flat.

Noun

flatdweller (plural flatdwellers)

  1. One who lives in a flat.
    • That inadvertently chucked a handful in the fan, all right; the foreman was summoned to the dispatch manager's office and there upbraided for squandering such an asset on mere flatdwellers. After all, he was forcefully reminded, it was the manager who dealt with the irate Greenside subscribers who...1972, James McClure, The Caterpillar Cop, London; Boston, M.A.: Faber and Faber, published 1992, →ISBN, page 46

Forms of flatdweller

pluralflatdwellers

Origin of flatdweller

Compound of flat + dweller.

Questions about flatdweller

What does flatdweller mean?
Flatdweller means one who lives in a flat.
What part of speech is flatdweller?
Flatdweller is a noun.
What is the plural of flatdweller?
The plural of flatdweller is flatdwellers.

Words near flatdweller in the dictionary

  1. flatchestedness
  2. flatcracker
  3. flatcrown
  4. flatcrowns
  5. flatdom
  6. flatdweller
  7. flatdwellers
  8. flatearther
  9. flatearthers
  10. flatearthery
  11. Flaten

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