Meanings
plural dwellers
- An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
The new couple are apartment dwellers.
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[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 132–133To 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 314–315As 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 75Synonyms: 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
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰwel-
- Proto-Germanic*dwalaz
- Proto-Germanic*dwaljaną
- Proto-West Germanic*dwalljan
- Old Englishdwellan
- Old Norsedveljainflu.
- Middle Englishdwellen
- Middle Englishdweller
- Englishdweller
From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto loĝanto
- loĝantoinhabitant
Spanish morador
- moradorinhabitant
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dweller
Cite this entry
dweller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dweller
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