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Plural of inhabitant

regular plural

The plural of inhabitant is inhabitants.

Forms of inhabitant

Singularinhabitant /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
Pluralinhabitants /ɪnˈhæbɪtənts/
Countablecountable

Inhabitants in a sentence

  • About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast.2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2
  • 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
  • The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.From the entry evacuate
  • And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.From the entry Jebus
  • The heavy rains flooded the inhabitants out of the town.From the entry flood out

Meaning of inhabitant

  1. noun Someone or thing who lives in a place.
  2. noun A possible value for a type.
  3. adjective Resident.

Full definition of inhabitant

Questions about the plural of inhabitant

What is the plural of inhabitant?
The plural of inhabitant is inhabitants.
Is inhabitant countable?
Inhabitant is a countable noun.

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