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in-habitant
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is resident of habitation |
| Synonyms: | aborigine, addressee, autochthon, boarder, citizen, colonist, denizen, dweller, householder, incumbent, indweller, inmate, lessee, lodger, native, neighbor, occupant, occupier, renter, resider, roomer, settler, squatter, suburbanite, tenant, urbanite |
| Main Entry: | denizen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resident |
| Synonyms: | citizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, inhabiter, liver, national, native, occupant, resider, subject |
| Notes: | a denizen is someone who inhabits a particular place while a citizen is a native or naturalized member of a state, city, town, or other political community |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, immigrant |
| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person deeply rooted in community |
| Synonyms: | character, inhabitant, native, resident |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, nonnative |
| Main Entry: | native |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person born in the country in which he/she dwells |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, autochthon, citizen, dweller, home towner, indigene, inhabitant, local, national |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, immigrant, stranger |
| Main Entry: | occupant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who resides in a place |
| Synonyms: | addressee, denizen, dweller, holder, householder, incumbent, indweller, inhabitant, lessee, occupier, possessor, renter, resident, resider, tenant, user |
| Antonyms: | displaced person |
| Main Entry: | resident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person living in a particular place |
| Synonyms: | citizen, denizen, dweller, habitant, householder, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, liver, local, lodger, native, occupant, resider, squatter, suburbanite, tenant, urbanite |
| Main Entry: | tenant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leases a place |
| Synonyms: | addressee, boarder, dweller, holder, householder, indweller, inhabitant, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, occupant, occupier, possessor, rent payer, renter, resident, roomer |
| Notes: | a tenant is one who has a right or lease to occupy a place; a tenet is a belief, rule or part of a doctrine |
| Antonyms: | landlord |
| Main Entry: | dweller |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tenant |
| Synonyms: | inhabitant, occupant, resident |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political territory; nation |
| Synonyms: | citizenry, citizens, commonwealth, community, constituents, electors, grass roots, homeland, inhabitants, kingdom, land, native land, patria, people, polity, populace, public, realm, region, society, soil, sovereign state, state, terrain, voters |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
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