inhabitant
Syllables: in·hab·i·tant/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
inhabitant noun: someone or thing who lives in a place.
Noun
inhabitant (plural inhabitants)
- Someone or thing who lives in a place.
- 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.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 216
- 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.1957 November, J. Spencer Gilks, “Centenary of the Bridport Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 747
- A possible value for a type.
- One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to its cardinality, a count of the inhabitants of that type.2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima, →ISBN
Adjective
inhabitant (not comparable)
inhabitant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
inhabitant in Hindi
- someone or thing who lives in a place
- निवासी nivāsī, रहनेवाला rahnevālā, वासी vāsī
inhabitant in Tamil
- ஒரு இடத்தில் வசிப்பவர், குடியிருப்பவர், வாசி, உள்ளூர்வாசி
inhabitant in Urdu
- inhabitant, native
- واسی vāsī
- inhabitant; dweller
- باسی bāsī
inhabitant in Bengali
- someone or thing who lives in a place
- বাসিন্দা baśinda
More languagesFewer languages
- inhabitant in Telugu
- నివాసి nivāsi
- inhabitant in Malayalam
- കുടിയിരിപ്പുകാരൻ, സ്ഥിരം പാർപ്പുകാരൻ, സ്ഥിരനിവാസി, വസിക്കുന്നവൻ
- inhabitant in Kannada
- ನಿವಾಸಿ, ಒಕ್ಕಲಿರುವವನು
- inhabitant in Punjabi
- ਵਸਨੀਕ vasnīk, ਬਾਸ਼ਿੰਦਾ bāśindā
- inhabitant in Gujarati
- સૂરતી sūrtī
- inhabitant in Sanskrit
- अधिवास adhivāsa, निवासिन् nivāsin
- inhabitant in Arabic
- سَاكِن sākin, سَاكِنَة sākina, سُكَّان sukkān, أَهْل ʔahl
- inhabitant in Malay
- penghuni
- inhabitant in Indonesian
- pemukim, penduduk
- inhabitant in Persian
- ساکن sâken, مقیم moqim, اهل ahl
- inhabitant in Thai
- พลเมือง pon-lá-mʉʉang, พสกนิกร pá-sòk-gà-ní-gɔɔn
- inhabitant in Vietnamese
- cư dân
Examples of inhabitant in a sentence
- The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
- And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
- The heavy rains flooded the inhabitants out of the town.
Synonyms of inhabitant
Forms of inhabitant
| plural | inhabitants |
|---|---|
| alternative form | enhabitant |
Origin of inhabitant
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.
Words formed from inhabitant
Questions about inhabitant
- What does inhabitant mean?
- Inhabitant means someone or thing who lives in a place.
- What is inhabitant in Hindi?
- Inhabitant in Hindi is निवासी (nivāsī), रहनेवाला (rahnevālā), वासी (vāsī). See Inhabitant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inhabitant?
- Inhabitant can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce inhabitant?
- Inhabitant is pronounced /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/.
- What is the plural of inhabitant?
- The plural of inhabitant is inhabitants.
Words near inhabitant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inhabitant (page history and authors); inhabitant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); باسی (Urdu) (page history and authors); inhabitant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inhabitant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સૂરતી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); अधिवास (Sanskrit) (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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