COHABITANTS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

cohabitants

noun

plural of cohabitant

as in inhabitants

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Noun

But Kova is shocked to discover her sweetheart taking up with someone new, who may be linked to the monsters dragging Stormwatch’s inhabitants into the ocean.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
The Nazca Lines are a group of extensive geoglyphs scraped into the desert around Nazca centuries ago by Peru’s Indigenous inhabitants.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of inhabitants

Noun

Their replacements might be anonymous shadow dwellers, but that’s OK.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
It's been a hot, dry year for the southwestern United States, and water levels on the Colorado River are low, raising questions for Southwestern urban dwellers about whether cities like Las Vegas will run out of water in the near future.

— Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 28 July 2026

Definition of dwellers

Noun

Originally famed for the company’s organs that swelled Detroit theaters and churches, the situation became perilous after Wurlitzer and the remaining tenants all left by 1982.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2026
When The Times knocked on the door of the home Yeager had hoped to rent — days after Yeager had been told the tenants would be moving out — a dog immediately barked.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of tenants

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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

Definition of habitants

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Used to constant attention in Europe, these new short-term denizens of Athens enjoyed a refreshingly anonymous existence.

— Tom Campbell, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Such federal funding intricacies could seem far removed from the denizens of a tent city under the highway in San Diego.

— Eric Boodman, STAT, 31 July 2026

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