Other forms: inhabitants
An inhabitant is somebody who lives in a particular place. The inhabitants of the village, five thousand inhabitants, the original inhabitants.
It is the neutral word for population counts, and it is used of animals as readily as of people. Original inhabitants is a phrase that carries a great deal of history in three words.
1nouninhabitantSomebody who lives in a particular place.
“The island has only a few hundred inhabitants and one small shop.”
inhabitant is a resident.
Also accepted in games: resident
Latin inhabitare means to dwell in, from in plus habitare, to dwell.
Proto-Indo-European
*ghabh- — to seize, take, hold, have
Latin
inhabitāns
Old French
inhabitant
Middle English
inhabitantes
English, today
inhabitant
Built from
From Middle English inhabitantes and inhabitaunt, 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA