dweller

[ dwel-er ]
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noun
  1. 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

  • Grass-eating animals feared beasts of prey long before the Tree-dwellers lived.

    The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
  • It 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 Morris
  • In the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host.

    Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
  • That is a sad condition of things, but one which fully satisfies the greater part of the dwellers on your planet.

    Urania | Camille Flammarion
  • Thus the seigneur reserved to himself an access to those subterraneous chambers, unknown even to the dwellers of the castle.