DWELLER Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

dweller

noun

Definition of dweller

as in resident

one who lives permanently in a place the kinds of nuisances that city dwellers are all too familiar with

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Recent Examples of dweller Pick wild apples—or go to the farmer’s market For city dwellers, Przystup recommends going to the flower market or the farmer’s market, or a classic stroll through Central Park. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026 Even though the season’s still young, the Dolphins and the Chargers, who coincidentally have two former Dolphins head coaches on its offensive staff, are the NFL’s bottom-dwellers this season. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026 Under Smotrich, the finance minister whose portfolio includes settlement policy, and Ben Gvir, the national security minister — both settlement dwellers themselves — constraints on settlers have largely fallen away. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026 While plenty of city dwellers would love to ditch their cars for a bike, some things—grocery shopping, daycare pickup—are still difficult to do on a regular two-wheeler. — Eliza Thompson, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 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 The Mountaineers — who have transformed from an RMAC cellar-dweller into a heavyweight since Bains took over in 2011 — are looking to build on the program’s recent milestones. — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026 The service As elsewhere in Bahia, service is warm and friendly—albeit not quite as fast and efficient as city-dwellers may expect. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dweller

Noun

José Antonio Bañuelos-Díaz, 42, a Mexican national and West Adams resident, appeared in court wearing a reflective vest with the name of a landscaping company, blue jeans and boots with the American flag on them.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
California weighs factors like time spent in the state and business ties when deciding who counts as a resident.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of resident

Noun

Rugged island Flores, located in the southeast of the Indonesian archipelago, is one of a handful of islands in the world’s most populous Muslim nation with a Christian majority, with 80% of its two million inhabitants identifying as Roman Catholic.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 22 Oct. 2026
The very few people who live there work on sheep ranches, and in some areas the population density is as low as one-tenth of an inhabitant per square mile.

— Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of inhabitant

Noun

Well outside Cuba’s territorial waters, Cuban MiGs destroyed two of the civilian planes with air-to-air missiles, killing the four occupants, the complaint said.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
According to the affidavit, Cuban intelligence operatives conducted activities in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties that investigators contend formed part of a conspiracy to murder the occupants of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026