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单词 inhabitant
释义
inhabitant
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/us
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
B2
apersonoranimalthatlivesin aparticularplace:
（某地的）居民，栖居动物
acityof five million inhabitants拥有500万居民的城市
Synonyms
denizenliterary
city, town, cave, etc.dweller
More examples
  • TheAboriginesare thenativeinhabitants ofAustralia.
  • Thecityof Ely has about 10,000 inhabitants.
  • Many of theimmigrantshave intermarried with the island'soriginalinhabitants.
  • It was soexcitingtoseethatourbirdbox has some new inhabitants.
  • The first inhabitant of thefarmwas my great-grandfather, whobuiltthehouse.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who live or settle somewhere
  • asylum seeker
  • boarder
  • brain drain
  • city slicker
  • co-resident
  • frontiersman
  • Georgian
  • guest worker
  • habitant
  • illegal alien
  • lodger
  • Orcadian
  • outflow
  • overspill
  • repeople
  • returnee
  • squatter
  • villager
  • welcome wagon
  • year-rounder
See more results »
(Definition ofinhabitantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

inhabitant| American Dictionary

inhabitant
noun[C]
us
/ɪnˈhæb·ɪ·t̬ənt/
apersonoranimallivingin aplace
(Definition ofinhabitantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinhabitant

inhabitant
In his visits to and walks around allotments, public housing projects and wasteland, he took photographs, drew maps and interviewed inhabitants or users of space.
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Today their inhabitants produce fish products for a world market with the aid of hightechnology fishing vessels and fish plants.
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The fragmentation of villages and the formation of new villages by inhabitants of existing ones can be seen as another dimension of the same phenomenon.
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The poverty, disease, and crime in the new urban slums were seen as resulting from the genetic inferiority of the inhabitants.
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Nevertheless, the figures show that such pottery was not concentrated in specific areas, but widespread among the inhabitants.
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Nucleated settlement would have placed the inhabitants of a farm in close daily proximity.
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The timing and planning of the construction may thus have been something that was decided by a more extended group of people than the inhabitants.
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At the outset of the eighteenth century it had some 800 inhabitants, and around 1860 approximately 1,300, who lived in sixteen mostly very small villages.
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This is not only enacted upon prior inhabitants of a land, but also in acts designed to reinforce the existence of distinct sovereign territories.
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Each additional representative a region had per million inhabitants earned it on average an extra 72,000 roubles per capita in net transfers.
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It is therefore unsurprising that the music press largely ignores teenybopper fans and the artists they admire, as the most obvious inhabitants of this mainstream.
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One of the advantages of raising troops through the companies was that their corporate resources might ensure that the poorer inhabitants were less burdened.
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The entire country lost around one million inhabitants alone between 1850 and 1870.
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The inhabitants of this area are unfamiliar with most of the technology we take for granted.
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Only a tiny fraction of the mass of a planet can be useful to its inhabitants.
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Collocationswithinhabitant

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These are words often used in combination withinhabitant.

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early inhabitant
Earlyinhabitantschedules monthly and weekly masses for their spiritual development.
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human inhabitants
Houseplants, with their air-cleaning effects, were touted as healthy for human inhabitants.
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indigenous inhabitants
Neither has there been an important attempt to uncover the anthropological past of the indigenous inhabitants.
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