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Meanings of dweller in English

Portuguese
habitantes
Catalan
veïna
Spanish
vecina

A person who inhabits a particular place.

        habitantes
        Usage of dweller in English
        1
        One had the alertness and vigor which bespeaks the dweller in towns.
        The Mystery of the Four Fingers
        2
        The dweller in cities may pass a lifetime without hearing the hototogisu.
        Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
        3
        Clement to wit, as the dweller in the house was a blacksmith.
        A Dream of John Ball; and, A King's Lesson
        4
        His demeanor was no longer that of a furtive, ever-wary sand dweller.
        Mentats of Dune
        5
        It was merely that of the city-dweller as distinguished from the rustic.
        The Damnation of Theron Ware
        6
        Buccari stepped forward and pointed in cliff dweller fashion down the trail.
        Genellan: planetfall
        7
        He has a longer pedigree than many a titled dweller in Belgravia.
        Hodge and His Masters
        8
        To the uptown city-dweller, the idea of shopping meal-by-meal was hopelessly inefficient.
        97 orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one ...
        9
        I'd been a city dweller, first in Alexandria and then in Rome.
        Lily of the Nile
        10
        He is a seaside Pan instead of the woodland dweller usually portrayed.
        The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition / A Pictor...
        11
        I'm sure the last dweller under this roof came in years ago.
        The Adventures of Sally
        12
        Every white dweller among the Indians is known by some special cognomen.
        Among the Sioux: A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas
        13
        The dweller glided swiftly out of sight behind an outcropping of rock.
        Genellan: planetfall
        14
        This is a mountain after all, and I'm a Brooklyn-bred city dweller.
        Ebony
        15
        So saying, the strange, lone island dweller led them into his hut.
        The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
        16
        As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.
        Jude the Obscure
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