• enhabitant(archaic)

FromMiddle Englishinhabitantes(n. plural) andinhabitaunt(adj.), fromOld Frenchinhabitant, fromLatininhabitāns, present participle ofinhabitō(“to inhabit”), fromin-(“in”) +habitō(“to dwell”) (frequentative ofhabeō(“to hold”), fromProto-Indo-European*ghabh-(“to seize, take, hold, have”). Bysurface analysis,inhabit +‎-ant.

• IPA^(key):/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/

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• Hyphenation:in‧hab‧i‧tant

inhabitant (pluralinhabitants)

1. Someone or thing wholives in aplace.

   Synonyms:resident,dweller;see alsoThesaurus:inhabitant

   • 1899 February,Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […],→OCLC, part I,page216:

     I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there areinhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.

   • 2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, inThe Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent‎^[1],→ISBN,→OCLC,page103, column 2:

     About 98 per cent of Taiwan'sinhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.

2. (type theory) A possible value for atype.
   • 2021,Martin Oderskyet al., chapter 19, inProgramming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima,→ISBN:

     One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to itscardinality, a count of theinhabitants of that type.

inhabitant (notcomparable)

1. resident

inhabitant

1. third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative ofinhabitō

inhabitantoblique singular, m (oblique pluralinhabitanzorinhabitantz,nominative singularinhabitanzorinhabitantz,nominative pluralinhabitant)

1. inhabitant

• → English:inhabitant

• Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIX^e auXV^e siècle (1881) (inhabitant)