Inhabitant synonyms and antonyms

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occupant
One who inhabits or exercises direct control over a certain piece of property or premises, as distinguished from the one who has ownership of the property, although the same person(s) may do both.
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resident (related)
A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale:
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habitant
An inhabitant; resident
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native
One born in or connected with a place by birth:
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dweller
An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
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colonist
An original settler or founder of a colony.
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boarder
A person who regularly gets meals, or room and meals, at another's home for pay
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householder
The head of a household.
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addressee
The person to whom mail, etc. is addressed
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inmate
A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)
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alien (antonym)
One who is not a citizen, national, or subject of a particular country.
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transient (antonym)
One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time.
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villager (related)
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townsfolk (related)
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denizen
An inhabitant; a resident:
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indweller
One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.
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settler (related)
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lodger
A person or thing that lodges; esp., one who lives in a rented room in another's home
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renter
One that pays rent for the use of another's property; a tenant.
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occupier
One who occupies, particularly with respect to a foreign government controlling the territory of another.
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incumbent
Incumbent is defined as the person who is already in an elected office.
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roomer
One who rents a room or rooms in which to live; a lodger.
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lessee
An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property.
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citizen
A member of a state or nation, esp. one with a republican form of government, who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights
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nonresident (antonym)
Nonresident is defined as a person who works, goes to school or stays in a different city or area from where their home is located.
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permanent-resident
A person with permanent residency, a visa status which allows that person to reside indefinitely in a foreign country without acquiring citizenship in that country.
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tenant
A person who pays rent to occupy or use land, a building, etc.
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residentiary
(Eccles.) A clergyman bound to an official residence
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inhabitants (related)
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tribe (related)
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townspeople (related)
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township (related)
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squatter
(Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
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  • It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

  • The tree swift, or scaly lizard, is also an inhabitant of western and south-western Texas.

  • They inhabit chiefly the northern seas, but many abyssal forms occur between the tropics and in the southern parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. They are represented in British waters by eight genera, and about twenty species, only one of which, the burbot (Lola vulgaris), is an inhabitant of fresh waters.

  • It is an inhabitant of the rivers and streams of Europe north of the Alps, but it is most abundant in those of France and Germany.

  • One of the largest and most widely distributed species of this genus, which includes about twenty, is the Amblystoma tigrinum, an inhabitant of both the east and west of the United States and of a considerable part of the cooler parts of Mexico.

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