cohabitants

noun

plural of cohabitant
as in inhabitants

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  1. inhabitants
  2. residents
  3. occupants
  4. dwellers
  5. tenants
  6. habitants
  7. denizens
Noun
  • The second story in the Faraway trilogy, the film and book follow three siblings who move to the English countryside and discover a magical tree and its fantastical inhabitants.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
  • Zainetti said emergency teams have been hard at work to try and secure the village so inhabitants can safely return soon.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Definition of inhabitants
Noun
  • Missouri residents can access informational presentations about Benton’s life work for free.
    — Zuri Primos July 26, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • And, after all that, the majority of residents have to approve the noise walls.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of residents
Noun
  • According to previous reporting by this news organization, people leaving tiny homes in Alameda County moved into housing at similar rates between 2019 and 2022, while Santa Clara County tiny homes helped move 43% of occupants to housing.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • The panic from the occupants struggling to grab floatation devices helped spur aviation-safety reforms, including mandatory preflight passenger briefings and improvements involving flotation equipment.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of occupants
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
  • The meeting came days after the city inadvertently told tenants to vacate their homes.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026
  • The aftermath of the fire has been litigious, with tenants accusing companies of not maintaining safety systems, ignoring complaints about fireworks and failing to secure the property after the fire.
    — Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 24 July 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
Definition of habitants
Noun
  • The wealthiest denizens often hire landscape designers, who precisely source the trees, flowers, and shrubs to plant for one’s wildest aesthetic desires.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 24 July 2026
  • However, there were the other denizens of bohemia who, like Harrington, sought to create goods of value beyond their market measure.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of denizens
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