dweller
noun/ˈdwɛlə/UK/ˈdwɛlɚ/US
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen Middle English -ere Middle English dweller English dweller From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.
- inherited from dweller
Definitions
An inhabitant of a specific place
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: […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dweller. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA