dweller

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UK/ˈdwɛlə/US/ˈdwɛlɚ/

noun

An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.

“The new couple are apartment dwellers.”

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

noundweller (plural dwellers)

plural dwellers

  1. An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.

    The new couple are apartment dwellers.

    3 more examples

    [T]he craggineſſe and ſteepineſſe of places up and dovvn is a great advantage to the dvvellers, and makes them inacceſſible, for they ſerve as Fortreſſes erected by Nature her ſelfe, to protect them from all incurſions: […]

    1642, James Howell, “Section X”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, pages 132–133

    To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.

    1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315

    As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.

    1963, Colin Clark, Australian Hopes and Fears, page 75

    Synonyms: inhabitant, resident, denizen

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.

More synonyms by meaning

nouna person who inhabits a particular place

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰwel-
  2. Proto-Germanic*dwalaz
  3. Proto-Germanic*dwaljaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*dwalljan
  5. Old Englishdwellan
  6. Old Norsedveljainflu.
  7. Middle Englishdwellen
  8. Middle Englishdweller
  9. Englishdweller

From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.

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Translations

Esperanto loĝanto
  • loĝantoinhabitant
Spanish morador
  • moradorinhabitant

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

dweller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dweller

MLA

“dweller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dweller. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dweller,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dweller.

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