inhabitant
nounWord Family
- inhabit verb
- habitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabited adjective (≠ uninhabited)
- inhabitant noun
- habitation noun
a person or an animal that lives in a particular place （某地的）居民，栖息動物 the oldest inhabitant of the village 這個村最老的居民 It is a town of about 10 000 inhabitants. 這是一個有約1萬名居民的城鎮。
Extra Examples77% of the inhabitants lived in the countryside. 那時 77% 的居民生活在鄉村。 He is Brixham's oldest inhabitant. 他是布裏克瑟姆最早的居民。 London has over seven million inhabitants. 倫敦有700 多萬居民。 São Paulo has nearly 20 million inhabitants. 聖保羅市有近 2,000 萬居民。 The island's earliest inhabitants came from India. 島上最早的居民來自印度。 It eats mice, lizards and other small inhabitants of the forest floor. 它吃老鼠、蜥蜴和森林地面的其他小居民。 the inhabitants of the rainforest/tundra/remote islands 熱帶雨林／苔原／偏遠島嶼的居民
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- early
- first
- …
- have
- live
- of…inhabitant
- with…inhabitant
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inhabitare ‘inhabit’.