outdwellers
outdwellers is the plural of outdweller.
Meaning of outdweller
Noun
outdweller (plural outdwellers)
- One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
- I apprehend the churchyard of a parish belongs in different ways both to the minister and the churchwardens; for I take the soil or surface to belong in general to the minister, and the interior part to the parishioners for burial; and consequently I think that no foreigner or outdweller ought to...1842, Richard Burn, The Ecclesiastical Law - Volume 1, page 258
- One who lives outside the current locale; an outsider or non-citizen.
- Even in the case with which we started, the outdweller from civilization, who supplies all his own wants and those of his family, produces only for his and their consumption.1895 March, J.M. Ludlow, “Some Words On the Ethics of Coöperative Production”, in Atlantic Monthly, volume 75
Questions about outdwellers
- What is outdwellers the plural of?
- Outdwellers is the plural of outdweller.
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