dweller

American

[dwel-er] / ˈdwɛl ər /

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.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

dwellers

plural

Etymology

Origin of dweller

dwell ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

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dweller dwellers

One of the earliest known primates was Teilhardina, a tiny tree dweller weighing just 28 grams – similar to the smallest primate alive today, Madame Berthae’s mouse lemur.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

As imagined by director Travis Knight—best known for another toys-to-screen saga, 2018’s “Transformers” sequel “Bumblebee”—and a battalion of screenwriters, the new He-Man, lost prince from the planet Eternia, is a meek cubicle dweller named Adam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

It’s probably helpful to note that I’m a city dweller and haven’t owned a car since 2018, so this isn’t a straightforward “just hop in the car” situation.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026

Lead actress Ella Purnell plays Lucy MacLean in the show, a vault dweller raised underground in a protective bunker in the aftermath of the nuclear war.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

It showed climbing vines, rivers and waterfalls, grapes, flower beds, singing birds, everything a desert dweller might dream of.

From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman

"But now that urban dwellers realise their cities are getting hotter, everyone now wants to save the Aravallis."

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

Fen Cottage at Wicken Fen, in Cambridgeshire, was built in roughly 1700 and is one of the last surviving homes of the ancient fen dwellers.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

And yet, most city dwellers would rather bloom where they’re planted.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

But when the film takes the perspective of a human looking at the forest dwellers, their eyes appear small and dark, almost nondescript.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Secondly, when climate change causes mass extinctions, sea creatures are usually hit as hard as land dwellers.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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