inhabitant

«inhabitant» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an inhabitant, inhabitants)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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 the corpora

• These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,
• The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
• And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
• But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
• And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inhabitant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.