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
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.
—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.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
The bar already has its particular audience -- the military, students and young professionals of the creative industries, some actors and painters -- typical habitants of the Podil district of Kyiv, popular with its cultural places.
—Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 2 June 2023
Meanwhile, a deadly, self-replicating, microparticle structure is growing exponentially, eating the jungle and killing nearby tribal habitants.
—Don Oldenburg, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
Chidi, the professor and philosophy nerd, winds up trying to teach his co-habitants—and himself, and even the reforming demon played by Danson—on how to be a good person who can actually make it to the Good Place despite their past sins.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019
Its walls completely enclose the living area so as to protect its habitants from the elements!
—Jay Willis, GQ, 2 July 2018
New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
Many of Murphy’s encounters have the eerie magic of habitants of two planets getting to know one another.
—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.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
The bar already has its particular audience -- the military, students and young professionals of the creative industries, some actors and painters -- typical habitants of the Podil district of Kyiv, popular with its cultural places.
—Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 2 June 2023
Meanwhile, a deadly, self-replicating, microparticle structure is growing exponentially, eating the jungle and killing nearby tribal habitants.
—Don Oldenburg, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
Chidi, the professor and philosophy nerd, winds up trying to teach his co-habitants—and himself, and even the reforming demon played by Danson—on how to be a good person who can actually make it to the Good Place despite their past sins.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019
Its walls completely enclose the living area so as to protect its habitants from the elements!
—Jay Willis, GQ, 2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for habitant
Noun
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But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Assembled at Port-La Nouvelle and towed 16 km offshore, the turbines now stand ready for the final stage of cable and grid connection works done by RTE, before starting to deliver clean energy to approximately 50,000 inhabitants each year.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Police are asking residents to call 305-474-6473 to report sightings of stray or aggressive dogs.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Georgia Marcum, 21, a resident of The Cliffs and a University of Arkansas, Fayetteville student was home when the shooting began and was evacuated by police.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Seating is marketed for five, but three second-row occupants are transported intimately.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
7 Sep. 2025
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The four other occupants of the vehicle sustained nonfatal injuries and were treated on scene and at local hospitals, according to police.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Habitant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitant. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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