# inhabitant

Pronunciation: say "in-HAB-i-tuhnt" /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/

## Noun

1. A person, animal, or thing that lives in or occupies a particular place.
   - Simple: A person or animal that lives in a certain place.
   - _Each inhabitant of the town received a notice about the road closure._
   - _The forest's inhabitants include deer, foxes, and countless nesting birds._
3. A value that has, or belongs to, a given type.
   - Simple: A value that belongs to a particular type in programming.
   - _Each inhabitant of a type can be built using that type's construction rules._
   - _A type with exactly two inhabitants behaves much like a simple on-off flag._

## Adjective

2. Living in or occupying a particular place; resident.
   - Simple: Living in or making a home in a place.
   - _The inhabitant communities along the river depend on the seasonal floods._
   - _Researchers cataloged the inhabitant species found only on that island._

## Origin

This word came into Middle English through Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, the present participle of inhabitō ("to inhabit"). That verb combined in- ("in") with habitō ("to dwell"), a form of habeō ("to hold"), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- ("to seize, take, hold, have").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/inhabitant (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).