dweller
a person or thing that lives or resides in a specified place or environment:If you act like an arrogant city dweller, you're not going to make it in this small town.The prospect of having an entire townhouse to oneself has excited many a wealthy apartment dweller.
Origin of dweller
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How to use dweller in a sentence
More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments.
Some argue that these migrants are better off than previous slum dwellers since they ride motorcycles and have cellphones.
Every one of those theories seems like the kind of googly-eyed lunacy only the fringiest fringe-dwellers would believe.
Vaccines Are Poison, Cellphones Cause Cancer, and Other Medical Conspiracies | Russell Saunders | July 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTApartment dwellers might opt for an artificial tree instead of the real thing.
Yes, Megyn Kelly, Santa Can Be Black (and Jesus, Too) | Jamelle Bouie | December 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was the night that dwellers in caves had watched from some high place among rocks.
One Perfect Summer Day in Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow and Others | Matt Seidel | September 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Grass-eating animals feared beasts of prey long before the Tree-dwellers lived.
The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth DoppIt must be borne in mind, in this consideration, that the apes differ from the other tree-dwellers in being destitute of claws.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisIn the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisThat is a sad condition of things, but one which fully satisfies the greater part of the dwellers on your planet.
Urania | Camille FlammarionThus the seigneur reserved to himself an access to those subterraneous chambers, unknown even to the dwellers of the castle.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne Sue
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