dweller
nounUK /ˈdwɛlə/ · US /ˈdwɛlɚ/
Etymology From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.
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An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
- The new couple are apartment dwellers.
- [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:
2 more examples
- 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:
- Derived terms
- basement-dweller, basement dweller, bottom dweller, bydweller, cave dweller, cellar dweller, city dweller, citydweller, country dweller, fringe dweller, indweller, mirror dweller, night dweller, outdweller, shackdweller, slum dweller, slumdweller, town dweller, town-dweller, towndweller, urban dweller, valley dweller
- Related terms
- dwell