What is another word for resident?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɛzɪdənt] (IPA)

Resident is a common term used to describe people who live or stay in a particular place for an extended period. There are various synonyms for the word 'resident' which include occupant, habitant, dweller, inhabitant, tenant, lodger, residentiary, settler, and denizen. The term occupant is mostly used to indicate a person residing in a household or owned property. A habitan typically refers to someone living in a particular region or locality. Dweller conveys a sense of someone who inhabits a particular space, while inhabitant conveys a sense of someone who lives in a particular place by choice. A tenant and lodger are generally used to describe individuals renting spaces or accommodations. Finally, a settler refers to someone who establishes a home in a new place while denizen denotes a resident of a place.

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Usage examples for Resident

And still none could explain, though a resident of the block stated that the house under watch was temporarily without occupants, as the family who dwelt in it had been gone to Europe for some weeks.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
We were speaking to a resident upon these matters, when he closed by saying: Ah, yes, it is to be regretted; but what can you expect?
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
I had a letter about you from the resident magistrate.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma

Famous quotes with Resident

  • America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live.
    Rick Allen
  • It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
    Emanuel Celler
  • It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
    Robert Creeley
  • This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.
    John Nelson Darby
  • The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
    Bob Goodlatte

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