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，栖息动物 the oldest inhabitant of the village 这个村最老的居民 It is a town of about 10 000 inhabitants. 这是一个有约1万名居民的城镇。
Extra Examples77% of the inhabitants lived in the countryside. 那时 77% 的居民生活在乡村。 He is Brixham's oldest inhabitant. 他是布里克瑟姆最早的居民。 London has over seven million inhabitants. 伦敦有700 多万居民。 São Paulo has nearly 20 million inhabitants. 圣保罗市有近 2,000 万居民。 The island's earliest inhabitants came from India. 岛上最早的居民来自印度。 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 热带雨林／苔原／偏远岛屿的居民
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- early
- first
- …
- have
- live
- of…inhabitant
- with…inhabitant
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inhabitare ‘inhabit’.