Synonyms of inhabitants

inhabitants

noun

plural of inhabitant

as in residents

one who lives permanently in a place

the inhabitants of the town don't like the tourists

Synonyms & Similar Words

• residents
• occupants
• inhabiters
• residers
• tenants
• citizens
• habitants
• dwellers
• natives
• denizens
• aborigines
• colonists
• émigrés
• villagers
• nationals
• cohabitants
• migrants
• settlers
• newcomers
• townsmen
• burghers
• coresidents
• subjects
• locals
• localites
• townees
• townies

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• foreigners
• aliens
• visitors
• transients
• tourists
• guests
• nonresidents
• refugees
• emigrants
• expatriates
• exiles
• evacuees
• defectors
• escapers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of inhabitants

Its inhabitants won their freedom from Spain by royal decree in 1691. — Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026

The film offers a portrait of a remote Salvadoran village whose inhabitants carry the memory of a massacre during the country’s civil war. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

The Strip had been largely obliterated in the war between Hamas and Israel, and most of its two million inhabitants were living in tents or in the ruins; images of human misery had flooded screens around the world. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

While Hungary is landlocked, its inhabitants — known as Magyars — love water, and especially spas. — Lucy Handley, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

Founded in 1975, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples defined the term, in part, as referring to a group who was descended from the earliest inhabitants of a region but who did not control the modern government of the country. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026

The cave’s inhabitants also extracted marrow from bones for sustenance, according to the study. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

Shakhtar Donetsk Watching Champions League evenings unfold at Stamford Bridge without its usual inhabitants, Chelsea, will take some getting used to. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

My guess is that the anchor-outs, or at least some of them, see real estate agents’ commodification of the land as a betrayal of the values of California’s earlier inhabitants and contrary to their whole ethos. — Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026