as in inhabitant
one who lives permanently in a place
the habitants of Indiana are nicknamed "Hoosiers"
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Recent Examples of habitant
One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
The country was a communication desert, with a tele-density (a key metric of economic development) languishing at 0.4 lines per 100 habitants.
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Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
In Les habitants, Depardon outfits a camper-trailer with mics and cameras and hits the French highways, parking in various locations around the country and inviting a range of people—teenagers and the elderly, single people and couples, parents and children—inside simply to talk.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
Unlike conventional designs, Cabin of Maze is designed to disorient, challenge, and surprise its habitants though its meandering corridors and passageways.
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New Atlas,
30 Jan. 2025
Many of Murphy’s encounters have the eerie magic of habitants of two planets getting to know one another.
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David Denby,
Vulture,
3 July 2024
Hippo Cove holds up to four hippos, so if one of the females gets pregnant and has a baby, then a current habitant will have to go.
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The Enquirer,
5 Mar. 2024
In many cases this summer, habitants of homeless encampments are having to pick up their belongings and find a new place to pitch their tent.
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Alexa Gagosz,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Aug. 2023
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
The country was a communication desert, with a tele-density (a key metric of economic development) languishing at 0.4 lines per 100 habitants.
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Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
In Les habitants, Depardon outfits a camper-trailer with mics and cameras and hits the French highways, parking in various locations around the country and inviting a range of people—teenagers and the elderly, single people and couples, parents and children—inside simply to talk.
—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
Unlike conventional designs, Cabin of Maze is designed to disorient, challenge, and surprise its habitants though its meandering corridors and passageways.
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New Atlas,
30 Jan. 2025
Many of Murphy’s encounters have the eerie magic of habitants of two planets getting to know one another.
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David Denby,
Vulture,
3 July 2024
Hippo Cove holds up to four hippos, so if one of the females gets pregnant and has a baby, then a current habitant will have to go.
—
The Enquirer,
5 Mar. 2024
In many cases this summer, habitants of homeless encampments are having to pick up their belongings and find a new place to pitch their tent.
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Alexa Gagosz,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for habitant
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Besieging a city frequently looks like squeezing the life from its inhabitants slowly before launching drone attacks on their farms and villages.
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The only permanent inhabitants of the country are seminomadic Cree Indians who trap the waterways in the winter and congregate in the summer at trading posts such as Mistassini Post and Rupert House.
Noun
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Vanoven urged residents to stay home as crews worked the active scene, warning that downed power lines and debris would be harder to see after dark.
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On Saturday, smoke drifted farther inland, with some residents reporting ash falling onto vehicles and property.
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In all, five RVs were destroyed in the fire but all occupants staying at the park made it out safely with no injuries reported.
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Two occupants had opened fire before fleeing the scene, police said.
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“Habitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitant. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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