inhabitant

Everyday

1. An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country. tree →
2. An animal that lives in a particular place or habitat: the inhabitants of the pond. tree →

In the lessons

In geography and maths: «the town has 5,000 inhabitants», «the inhabitants of the island». In science: animals that are inhabitants of a habitat. It tells the reader who lives somewhere.

Examples

• The village has only three hundred inhabitants. tree →
• The first inhabitants of the island were fishermen. tree →
• Frogs and newts are inhabitants of the pond. tree →
• The inhabitants of the town came out to watch the parade. tree →
• How many inhabitants does your city have? tree →
• The castle's only inhabitants now are bats. tree →
• One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny. tree →

Note

Countable. Verb: inhabit (to live in). Trap: «inhabited» means people live there; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there; «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in. In maths problems, number of inhabitants = population.

In Jewish tradition

A person living in a land, often one of the peoples of Canaan. In the later books it also names the people of a town or country, such as Keilah or Tyre, and even the creatures of the deep or the shades below the waters. In the primary lessons: In geography and maths: «the town has 5,000 inhabitants», «the inhabitants of the island». In science: animals that are inhabitants of a habitat. It tells the reader who lives somewhere.

Examples

• The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, (Torah GEN.36.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. (Prophets 1SA.23.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Writings PSA.83.8, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable. Verb: inhabit (to live in). Trap: «inhabited» means people live there; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there; «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in. In maths problems, number of inhabitants = population.