inhabitants
- 1Plural of inhabitant.
The island's inhabitants rely on fishing for their livelihood.
Local inhabitants protested the route of the new highway.
Note
A regular plural that only the noun can take. Inhabitant also works as an adjective meaning "resident," but English adjectives have no plural, so the -s form always refers to people, animals or other things that live somewhere. The same plural serves a narrower technical use, in which a type's inhabitants are the possible values it can take. In everyday prose it usually follows a place: the island's inhabitants, the inhabitants of the valley.
inhabitants is a form of inhabitant
inhabitant, noun: A person, animal, or thing that lives in or occupies a particular place. Full entry
- Forms
- inhabitantinhabitants plural
- Spelling
- inhabitant → inhabitants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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