indweller

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noun

One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounindweller (plural indwellers)

plural indwellers

  1. One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.

    "How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns!" exclaimed Charles.

    1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 58
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    But I will call the country's indwellers, And with soft words th' assembly will persuade[.]

    1883, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The Suppliant Maidens of Aeschylus, page 28

    "Only the bodies, of which this eternal, imperishable, incomprehensible Self is the indweller, are said to have an end."

    1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna person who inhabits a particular place

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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