COHABITANTS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

cohabitants

noun

plural of cohabitant

as in inhabitants

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Noun

For a long time, bunkers were designed to protect inhabitants from the fallout of nuclear weapons.

— Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
More than 90 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants are internally displaced.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of inhabitants

Noun

Hundreds of mourners later gathered at Rehman Baba cemetery for mass funeral prayers as grief gripped the neighborhood and announcements echoed from mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to join in prayers for those killed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Under constant threats from above, residents live largely in a spider’s world, with roads, sidewalks and gas stations draped in netting to entangle drones.

— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of residents

Noun

But locks evolved rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when growing numbers of city dwellers became increasingly concerned about rising theft and the security of their property.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Gray noise, per The New York Times, may sound like wind blowing or steady rainfall and works for apartment dwellers sensitive to sharp or fluctuating noises.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of dwellers

Noun

Matt Calvo, co-founder and partner of the commercial real estate firm, previously told the Naperville Sun that the firm was focused on bringing in new retail and restaurant tenants to the building at 239 S.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Too many tenants are competing for too few units, which drives up prices.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of tenants

Noun

Accordingly, the First Continental Congress wrote to Quebec’s habitants – residents of French origin – to invite them to join their new nationalist project.

— Sarah M.S. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

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