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inhabitant

noun
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/

Etymology

From Middle English inhabitantes (n. plural) and inhabitaunt (adj.), from Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, present participle of inhabitō (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to seize, take, hold, have”). By surface analysis, inhabit + -ant.

  1. derived from *ghabh-✻
  2. derived from inhabitāns
  3. derived from inhabitant
  4. inherited from inhabitantes

Definitions

  1. Someone or thing who lives in a place.

    • I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
    • It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.

  2. A possible value for a type.

    • One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to its cardinality, a count of the inhabitants of that type.

  3. resident

The neighborhood

Derived

coinhabitant, inhabitancy, noninhabitant

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inhabitant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inhabitant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at inhabitant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA