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inhabitants

Syllables: in·hab·i·tants/ɪnˈhæbɪtənts/

inhabitants is the plural of inhabitant.

Meaning of inhabitant

Noun

inhabitant (plural inhabitants)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    resident, dweller
  2. (type theory) 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

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Questions about inhabitants

What is inhabitants the plural of?
Inhabitants is the plural of inhabitant.
How do you pronounce inhabitants?
Inhabitants is pronounced /ɪnˈhæbɪtənts/.

Words near inhabitants in the dictionary

  1. inhabitances
  2. inhabitancies
  3. inhabitancy
  4. inhabitant
  5. inhabitantless
  6. inhabitants
  7. inhabitate
  8. inhabitated
  9. inhabitates
  10. inhabitating
  11. inhabitation

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