indweller

English

Etymology

From indwell +‎ -er or in- +‎ dweller.

Noun

indweller (plural indwellers)

1. One who dwells in a place; an inhabitant.
   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 58:

     "How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns!" exclaimed Charles.

   • 1883, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The Suppliant Maidens of Aeschylus, page 28:

     But I will call the country's indwellers,
     And with soft words th' assembly will persuade[.]

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:

     "Only the bodies, of which this eternal, imperishable, incomprehensible Self is the indweller, are said to have an end."

Related terms

• indwell

Translations

inhabitant — see inhabitant