dweller

[ dwel-er ]

/ ˈdwɛl ər /

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noun

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.

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Origin of dweller

dwell + -er¹

How to use dweller in a sentence

More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments.
Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum|Joel Kotkin|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some argue that these migrants are better off than previous slum dwellers since they ride motorcycles and have cellphones.
Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum|Joel Kotkin|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
Apartment 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|DAILY BEAST

It 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|DAILY BEAST
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.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman|Eugne Sue

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